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 ...

As the name suggests, science-fiction movies are just that – fiction. Unfortunately, that sometimes means the science is too. Rhett Allain examines some concepts that sci-fi movies regularly get wrong ...

Thonotosassa, FL / / December 27, 2025 / Sam Toney Popular science fiction has long shaped public understanding of scientific possibility, yet studies suggest that many widely recognized sci-fi ...

One of my principal hobbies (other than poking around on the Internet) is reading science fiction and fantasy stories. Those have been my favorite genres of fiction as far back as I can remember, and ...

In today’s comments, we envisioned life on a cold and sunless planet far from our own, exposed the soft underbelly of our worst technological nightmares, and dug deep into some of the tangled ...

Researchers have conducted one of the largest surveys of people's first memories, finding that nearly 40 per cent of people had a first memory which is fictional. Researchers have conducted one of the ...

The website URL was an Easter egg in the trailer. By Graeme McMillan When Kristen Wiig gets told that no one is better at quantum physics in the trailer for the new Ghostbusters movie, eagle-eyed ...

You would think that after building a super-collider that could open a black hole, science (as a whole) might rest a while. After all, they deserve it. But science never takes a holiday–Not when there ...

Charlie Huston‘s new novel Sleepless is the most science-fictional thing he’s ever written. And he partly credits the influence of moving from New York to Los Angeles, because L.A. is a more ...

The world of "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" is larger than life, and it contains some serious web-slinging scientific action. From modern laboratories to genetic engineering, the new "Spider-Man" movie is ...