Some science facts sound impossible, but they’re real. These examples show how strange reality can get once you look closer.

The film adaptation of Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary has positioned itself as a serious science fiction effort, one that consulted real space scientists and drew from actual astrophysics research. But ...

Jeffrey Weinzweig's Contraptions offers readers a thrilling journey through a world of espionage, betrayal, and advanced technology. Among the novel's many intriguing elements are the cutting-edge ...

The team responsible for the Oscar-nominated visual effects at the center of Christopher Nolan’s epic, Interstellar, have turned science fiction into science fact by providing new insights into the ...

A March 2026 study published in Science Advances by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory researchers Tuan Vu and Robert Hodyss has found that acrylonitrile — the organic compound at the center of a ...

When I used to teach English and what was then called “general studies” to budding scientists, one of the essay questions I most often set for them ran more or less as follows: “Should a country’s ...

A parent greets their newborn child with joy, tears streaming down their face. It should be one of the happiest moments of their life. And it is — until the attending doctor soberly rattles off a list ...

What if you could live forever? It’s an idea scientists have tossed around for ages as our understanding of the human body continues to grow. But one science fiction series sidesteps the idea of ...