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The promise of a fully connected smart home in 2025 should feel like science fiction turned into everyday convenience lights ...
Minority Report is an iconic sci-fi film that helped to define the early era of the genre in the 21st century and still is ...
A research team led by Prof. Tian-Bao Ma from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Tsinghua University has proposed a ...
If there’s one thing science fiction has to tell us, it’s that the future is full of lasers. Laser guns, laser swords, giant death-spewing laser planets—it’s lasers all the way down ...
Romeo is a Dead Man, a new "ultra-violent science-fiction" action game from No More Heroes director Goichi "Suda51" Suda and his studio Grasshopper Manufacture has been revealed at tonight's ...
The Sun Gun’s design, though, was much less science and more fiction. The proposed space station would have been a marvel of engineering—especially considering the era in technological ...
Criminals use the high seas to trade guns and drugs, says Monica Medina, who was an assistant secretary of state for oceans in the Biden administration. “I would hate to see mining become yet ...
Hollywood actor Val Kilmer, who starred in “Top Gun” and “Batman Forever,” has died at age 65. Kilmer succumbed to pneumonia on Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles, his daughter Mercedes ...
The racist tinge to Elon Musk’s hacking of the government eerily reflects cyberpunk's vision of the future—especially the science fiction coming out of South Africa.
These sci-fi anime pull you into worlds where technology shapes fate and the lines between man and machine blur.
Science fiction covers a lot of ground, and so, any list of the best sci-fi movies ever made is going to cover a variety of fantastical stories.
Comment Adrian Tchaikovsky: "Could life have gone any other way?" The author of the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club on the science that lies behind his novel Alien Clay, set on a ...