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 ...

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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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 ...

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 ...

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What happens when you pair CERN scientists with science fiction writers to create short stories inspired by particle physics? Science fiction asks the question “What if?” and then attempts to answer ...

Fast-than-light travel, instantaneous communication, terraforming. Science fiction relies on imaginative physics ideas to enrich its stories. Some of these are pure fiction, while others are closer to ...

Fictional alien worlds have evolved to resemble the real ones astronomers are finding. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Trends in ...

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year ...