In space, no one can hear you scream, but they can sure hear you scratching your head as you try to make sense of the sprawling “Alien” universe. While Ridley Scott’s 1979 haunted-house-in-the-cosmos ...

I could be the best pathologist on planet earth—the undisputed Sherlock Holmes of medical science, even—and I still wouldn’t have the slightest clue what the cause of death is for this particular ...