The hive mind was one of the most popular concepts of TV in 2025, and two of the biggest series approached it completely ...

An alien virus creates a hive mind. But the story is how the survivors fail to unite—revealing human cooperation's fragile ...

The Kepler-22b reveal flips the storyline of the series. What started as a story about Earth going through a bizarre ...

As Pluribus season 1 nears its finale, the latest episode raises questions about manipulation, intimacy, and whether Carol is losing control.

When Pluribus series creator Vince Gilligan said that his new Apple TV series wasn’t about AI, I called bullshit. The body-snatching hive mind that takes over Earth was the perfect metaphor for the ...

Classified as post-apocalyptic science fiction, Vince Gilligan's "Pluribus" does have mystery elements, particularly surrounding the alien virus that has transformed the rest of humanity. During a ...

If aliens are out there, why haven’t we heard from them? That’s the question at the center of Pop Mech’s new story, “Aliens Probably Exist—But They’re Staying Silent For a Reason, NASA Scientist ...

Have your feelings changed about the hive mind since last week? Carol (Rhea Seehorn) and the rest of the immune folk in Pluribus had two very different reactions to last week's big reveal: The virus ...

This story first appeared in Trying!, a thoughtful, funny, wide-ranging daily newsletter featuring essays from the mind of Matt Gross. You can sign up for them here. Those were simple aliens for ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

NASA's highly anticipated comet 3I/ATLAS images have been released, with a space agency official shooting down alien rumors and stressing that the interstellar visitor is a comet. When you purchase ...