Inspired by Sam Raimi's latest, we analyze what makes being marooned on a desert island so cinematic in the first place.

Ridley Scott's inimitable 1979 sci-fi thriller, Alien, expertly ratchets up the tension by not having the titular alien show up on screen until roughly an hour into the film. Following in Scott's ...

Ruby Box is an experimental feature that provides separate spaces in a Ruby process to isolate application code, libraries, and monkey patches. Ruby 4.0.0 has arrived as the newest release of the ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...

Janice Berry is a neonatal intensive care unit transport nurse at Children's National Hospital in Washington, D.C. WTOPNEWS Being a neonatal intensive care unit nurse is already a tough job — but what ...

In the D.C. region, conversations often start with, “What do you do?” WTOP’s “Working Capital” series profiles the people whose jobs make the D.C. region run. Many nurses in the D.C. area are ...

In July, researchers using the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System survey telescope in Chile made an exceedingly rare discovery: a mysterious object passing through the solar ...