It seems we’re using science fiction as a roadmap to make our dreams, and more often nightmares, come true. Why is it that we manufacture a nightmarish future and refuse to heed the warnings so ...

Popular science fiction has long shaped public understanding of scientific possibility, yet studies suggest that many widely recognized sci-fi concepts depart significantly from established physics. A ...

Science fiction movies like 2001: A Space Odyssey and Everything Everywhere All at Once have the best and most effective use ...

Science fiction can be valuable in the broader communication ecosystem, bringing science to the public and offering scientists a space to exercise imagination. Science communication is increasingly ...

When James Clerk Maxwell set out his famous equations 150 years ago, his model of electromagnetism included a piece of pure fiction: an invisible, all-pervasive “aether” made up of elastic vortices ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American In 1980, Robert A. Heinlein wrote, “The most ...

M'Benga and Number One work in Sickbay in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Paramount+ "Star Trek" has long had the reputation as the nerdiest of science fiction franchises, mostly because of its ...

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Science fiction, you (allegedly) have a sexism problem. In an incisive article for the The Guardian's book blog, Damien Walter lays out a stark gender disparity: of the 29 Grandmasters of Science ...