At the University of South Florida’s Engineering Expo, visitors can control a robotic catapult using nothing but their ...

Warp drive has long been a narrative shortcut for science fiction, but a new generation of physicists is treating it as a serious, if distant, engineering problem. Instead of asking whether ...

Lisa was the Senior Writer for the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, where she researched and wrote about science and ...

Mankind has become the pilot of spaceship earth, whether we like it or not. Half of all habitable land on earth is now dedicated to supporting human activity. And as of the year 2020, the mass of all ...

Some classic science fiction movies made sweeping predictions for the future. In some cases, those predictions never came to pass, but in others, the movies were strikingly on point. Predictions about ...

Science fiction shows often emphasize fiction over fidelity to science. Doctor Who famously popularized the pseudoscientific nonsense phrase “reverse the polarity of the neutron flow” in the 1970s, ...

With big names like Steven Spielberg and Christopher Nolan at the helm, the greatest hard sci-fi films will blow audiences' ...