Bethesda's "Starfield" paints a picture of space that's heavy on mining – and which might be surprisingly accurate, at least ...

A professor at the University of Tennessee reimagines the way we teach STEM with a science-fiction story-based class. In the beginning, a spaceship called the Yggdrasil is sailing through the cosmos ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) – Erin Macdonald didn’t grow up in a science fiction household. She watched X-Files as she got older, but the big names in Sci-Fi weren’t something she was familiar with. Today, she is ...

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The orbits of a trio of stars can be so chaotic that it’s impossible to precisely calculate the stars’ future trajectories. That’s the real science behind the name of the hit Netflix show, 3 Body ...

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Sci-fi, at its core, is social commentary. And it’s not reserved for nerds or dorks or Star Wars fans as one might imagine.

Christopher Kulp, Ph.D., professor of physics at Lycoming College, recently won the Mike Resnick Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Short Story by a New Author. His science fiction story titled, ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The prevailing scientific worldview of a ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The professor had drawn a square with polka ...