Some inventors find their inventive spark through science fiction. Tasers, for example, were inspired by (and named after) the 1911 novel Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle.[1] Likewise, Motorola’s ...

Red pill or blue pill? Utopia or dystopia? At PST Art — the largest art event in the U.S.— two major shows ask what science fiction says about the modern world. By Evan Nicole Brown Culture Writer ...

The early 1960s was a period of great excitement. Space travel had moved from the theoretical to actuality with President Kennedy’s promise to land on the moon by the end of the decade. Randall Ensley ...

SCI-FI WORLD: The Experience, a new museum in Santa Monica, CA will display the bridge from the Star Trek 1966 Original Series set, with statues of the crew. George Takei, "Sulu" from the original ...

The Chinese writer Cixin Liu Cixin Liu may not be a household name in America yet, but he’s already one of the most popular science-fiction writers in the world. He is most well-known for his 2008 ...

The sprawling California festival “PST Art” promises a dialogue between “two cultures.” But painting and physics may have more in common than their practitioners know. By Jason Farago One spring ...

The fascinating Wonderland factual TV series returns to Sky Arts this Spring with an all-new four-part series, Wonderland: Science Fiction in the Atomic Age, premiering on April 3rd at 8pm. Science ...

With this month marking Dune’s 60th anniversary, CU Boulder’s Benjamin Robertson discusses the book’s popular appeal while highlighting the dramatic changes science fiction experienced following its ...

BOT or NOT? This special series explores the evolving relationship between humans and machines, examining the ways that robots, artificial intelligence and automation are impacting our work and lives.

Those dastardly scientists are at it again, this time developing a neural chip that allows you to turn off sleep. Soon, everyone has one – and then it stops being possible to turn the chip off, and ...