Inspired by insect flight rather than propellers or jets, French engineers developed a working ornithopter that flapped its wings to generate lift and propulsion. Built to study efficient low speed ...

MMORPG of the Year. This is our equivalent award for other sites' Game of the Year honors, and we typically award it to whichever MMO or MMORPG we felt had the best overall year, whether it's because ...

Dune Awakening is a game with so much promise. Set in Frank Herbert's iconic sci-fi world, its sprawling reimagining of the sweltering world of Arrakis, coupled with its colossal sandworms and ...

Damaged cells produce molecules that trigger inflammation and stimulate the innate or adaptive immune response. These damage-associated molecular patterns, or DAMPs, may be released in response to ...

France is a nation of contradictions, its engineering trends being simultaneously ultra-conservative yet radically inventive to the point of absurdity. The forces of conformity and eccentricity have ...

Before I go into my list of movies to look forward to in 2026, I am compelled to say (again) “Sinners” is, without a shadow of a doubt, the best film of 2025. It is hard to describe in one sentence — ...

It’s the quiet period of the year, where many events and sites alike are running their own lists of the year. We at The Escapist are no different with our very own GOTY list awards. But, for some ...

Offering a brief line of text and several sidebars per spread, Into the Air: An Illustrated Timeline of Flight by Ryan Ann Hunter, illus. by Yan Nascimbene, charts the development of flight from ...