Over 40,000 years ago, Earth’s magnetic field underwent a full reversal, a rare phenomenon in which the North and South ...

As the iron and nickel inside our planet shift, so does Earth's magnetic field, meaning the North (and South) Poles are also ...

China’s exports of permanent magnets to the European Union saw a sharp rebound in November, as Beijing confirmed last week it has begun granting general licences with lengthier terms for overseas ...

The trailer for Disclosure Day has been released, providing a haunting glimpse at what first contact with an alien intelligence might be like. In the clip, a newsreader, played by Emily Blunt, is ...

Weirdness is a requirement if you lay claim to being America’s best krautrock band, and with the end-times dance rock Møtrik makes on their latest LP, Earth, that claim feels accurate. It was largely ...

Keyboardist James Weir has already made an impression on Chicago’s indie-rock scene in Ne-Hi and spin-off band Spun Out, but with his first album as a bandleader, he leaves the sweaty basement venue ...

We don't yet know why Sydney Chandler's Wendy can communicate with aliens, but we have some new insight into how the show pulled off the effect. Reading time 2 minutes While Alien: Earth fans ...

When Ridley Scott first premiered “Alien” in 1979, a new era of practical effects and creature design was ushered into the cultural zeitgeist. Almost 50 years later, the world that Scott built ...

Not long ago, Fred Armisen was reminiscing about the sound-effect LPs he used to stock at the Chicago record store where he worked in the Nineties. These vinyl platters contained all kinds of sounds, ...

Give your most important tool some flair. As the name suggests, pickaxe visual effects add some extra flair to your pickaxe by adding an effect that surrounds the tool. Whether that’s a star effect, ...

And, far more often than not, fans have taken to those big swings. It very easily could have gone a different way with the introduction of the aforementioned cybernetic humans and the substantial ...

Noah Hawley’s new Alien: Earth series delivers a lived-in world that feels weathered, dangerous, and oddly familiar. Featuring a mix of practical creature work, tactile production design, modern CGI ...