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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...