Being able to spot the Earth, let alone any signs of life on our planet, would require an enormous telescope from 66 million ...

Every once in a blue moon, a sci-fi movie comes along and shakes up the industry. While awards season buzz is oftentimes saved for those leaning more towards a dramatic tone, the genre of directors ...

Sci-fi cinema has changed greatly throughout the decades, and one can track its evolution from classics like Metropolis to ...

How big would a telescope need to be to see Earth’s dinosaurs from 66 million light-years away? Think big—and then think ...

Is the scientific method really the best approach to learning about the world? A new paper in Collective Intelligence applies the scientific method to itself, finding that some common strategies that ...

Casimir cavities are mysterious spaces between microscopic metal plates in a vacuum. Areas of diminished energy between the plates cause them to push toward each other, as if trying to fill the ...

Some say we’ve entered a new age of AI-enabled scientific discovery. But human insight and creativity still can’t be ...

Some sci-fi movies completely ditch the idea of an enemy entity to instead focus on human ingenuity and the consequences of technology.

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

Human activity brings with it alien species and creates excellent conditions that allow them to become established in an otherwise barren Arctic landscape. (Kristine Bakke Westergaard, NTNU via SWNS) ...

The AVATAR investigation on NASA's Artemis II will utilize organ chips to study how the astronauts' own cells respond to the hostile deep-space environment. Credit: Emulate When the Artemis II ...