A stellarator has twists and curves to help contain burning plasma "I remember a few people said that the place where Proxima is today was impossible," says Francesco Sciortino, the co-founder and CEO ...

Two different ways to tell the same story. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Science fiction is not monolithic. There are, in fact, ...

In the film, middle school teacher Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) is recruited to help save Earth because of his history as a cell biologist with some iconoclastic ideas about life in the universe.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Filmmaker Mark Alan Hoffman is making his rounds across the Pacific Northwest with his award-winning debut feature film “A Simple Machine.” The movie will make its Oregon ...

"Project Hail Mary" is a modern sci-fi hit that explores how a sun might die and how the human race could find a way to survive in that hypothetical scenario. In the film, fictional microorganisms ...

A massive seven-year project exploring 3,900 social-science papers has ended with a disturbing finding: researchers could replicate the results of only half of the studies that they tested 1. The ...

Some writers focus on moral subtext in their works. Others, an overarching lesson. But for Andy Weir, there’s only one driving approach to creating his bestselling novels: science first. “There’s ...

NEW YORK – I should’ve known bringing Andy Weir to a science museum was like bringing a kid to a candy store and asking them to keep their hands in their pockets. The book may be dense with what ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. [CLIP: The spaceship Hail Mary’s operating system (played by Priya Kansara) speaks in ...

As an astrophysicist, my world revolves around the wonders of space and the mysteries of the universe. This means I can be a tough critic of science fiction books and films that explore these topics.

Once upon a time, information arrived printed on paper, rolled into a tube, and tossed through the air to arrive on a lawn or doorstep. There’s a witty callback to this practice, known as “delivering ...