Although science fiction is not real, several shows base their ideas on what we know about science relating to space and time ...

Big hitter Peter F. Hamilton has a new sci-fi novel out this month – and Booker winner George Saunders ventures into speculative fiction with his latest book, Vigil ...

Its influence can be seen in storytelling, character dynamics and even the optimism that defines much of modern sci-fi. Star ...

Focusing on the futuristic tech that appears in sci-fi without paying attention to the actual point of the story is a big mistake, says Annalee Newitz ...

The 2000s offered up some exceptional sci-fi television, and no other decade can quite replicate its legacy within the genre.

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 ...

Since its very inception, science fiction has maintained a tight hold over the imagination of its principal audience, achieving mainstream appeal with the advent of television. Like literature or film ...

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 ...

We are currently living through an unprecedented rise in the popularity of science fiction over the past couple of years. From new releases from established names such as Star Wars to the rise of ...

Astrophysicist Erin Macdonald (Math, Phys’09) has a way of explaining things. As a graduate student and postdoctoral candidate teaching introductory physics and astronomy classes, Macdonald realized ...

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 ...