Seth MacFarlane's sci-fi comedy The Orville is both absurd and surprisingly complex, with Bortus being one of the best alien characters on TV.

It makes sense, really.

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The 1980s were a magical time for science fiction. Long gone were the B-pictures of the '50s and '60s as the era of the Hollywood blockbuster was upon us. By the end of the '70s, hits like Superman, ...

Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...