With lifeless eyes and frozen smiles, dolls sit inside homes just waiting for someone – anyone – to come play with them.

A warped puppet horror that blends dark comedy with surreal existential dread, offering a terrifying uncanny valley nightmare ...

Deep in the halls of the engineering school at Columbia University, professor Hod Lipson and his former student Jonathan Blutinger are reimagining how meat is made. In 2022, they developed a device ...

Dr. Stephanie Jett with GCSU's Psychological Science Department says the fear can be both evolutionary, and learned.

Hey Smarties! Today we’re sharing another episode from the latest season of “How We Survive,” Marketplace’s climate solutions podcast. Host Amy Scott and the “How We Survive” crew continue their ...

Mackenzie Astin, son of Addams Family star John Astin, signed on to star in a terrible movie before his father had a chance ...

History professor Mark Bray is no stranger to death threats. As the author of the book Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, published in 2017, he has received backlash and harassment from far-right ...

In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we discuss the economics and environmental impacts of energy-hungry data centers and whether these facilities are sustainable in the age of AI. Tech giants have been ...

A lot has been written in recent years about a horror-film renaissance that doubled the category’s market share in the decade between 2013 and 2023, from 4.87% to 10.08%. Much of it has focused on the ...

The uncanny valley of Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece. Trump administration tells Colorado wolves must come from U.S. Rockies states, not Canada ‘Could be problematic.' Did Sheriff Swank alter records ...

Supposedly, Saturday Night Live hasn’t particularly intended to favor stand-up comedians when casting the show in recent years; Lorne Michaels has said (and I’m sure I’ve repeated here) that there was ...