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 ...

The story introduces a simulated gravitationless environment—a concept that, while seemingly futuristic, has roots in ...

In today’s pharmaphorum podcast, web editor Nicole Raleigh speaks with Dr Isaac Bentwich, CEO and founder of Quris.AI, about ...

“Mirror bacteria” could evade people’s immune systems, they suggest, causing deadly infections. Such infections could also lead to a substantial proportion of plant and animal species being displaced, ...

A study crossing the boundaries between science fiction and scientific laws explores the potential limits of life as we know ...

Informed by Monty Python, its parody of life across the Universe recycles many beloved themes of science fiction, including rebellious technologies, time travel, galactic catastrophes and cosmic ...

The Matrix, Starship Troopers, and Galaxy Quest are all among the best and most essential science fiction movies of the 1990s ...

As we continue to push the boundaries of space exploration, the line between science fiction and reality becomes increasingly blurred. The discovery of life in the Ryugu sample, albeit terrestrial ...

Early science fiction imagined smart homes as liberating, but such portrayals have now shifted from utopian to dystopian ...