A nutrition scientist applies metabolism, biology and food science to one of science fiction's oldest questions.

Science fiction stories about “alien” invaders are often political allegories for anxieties around immigration. Now, a government website depicts non-citizens as extraterrestrials.

The White House turned a legal term into a science-fiction spectacle. The real story is not the theatrics. It is how language ...

Maybe we did not create life in the biological sense, but maybe we created something stranger: an alien form of ...

State and local offices across Washington are being directed to remove the word “alien” from state statutes and replace it with “noncitizen” under a new law aimed at modernizing legal language. The ...