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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Creator Vince Gilligan, the clever mind that brought us "Breaking Bad" and "Better Call Saul," ...

You can stop looking for glitches in the Matrix—it’s finally been proven that our universe is not merely a simulation running on some powerful alien civilization’s supercomputer. An international team ...

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An ominous UFO has breached our solar system and is hurtling toward Earth – and researchers suspect the extraordinary object may be an alien spacecraft sent to survey humanity ahead of an invasion, ...