Science Of Sci-Fi

Frasier Cain from Universe Today explains the energy requirements needed for the Death Star to destroy a planet in a few seconds, and...

A team of engineers created a thin film that can change color when pressure is applied.

Scientists name a new species of catfish after the Star Wars character Greedo, the one that Han shot first.

Spider-Man's web-slinging powers have been explained in several different ways in his comics and movies, including genetic mutation...

Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy was often called "the ultimate in future history" when it was published in the 1990's, as a...

Scientists have already accomplished Terminator-inspired bionic technology, but this is on a whole new level. This self-powered liquid...

Have scientists discovered a real-life method for incepting false memories? Researchers from Industrial Physics and Chemistry Higher...

Neill Blomkamp's Chappie may have been an incoherent mess overall, but the titular robot didn't disappoint. Now, Virginia Tech has...

For decades, science fiction has been fascinated by the concept of a "counter-Earth," or an Earth-sized planet that's equidistant from...

"Human-like intelligence" has often been used as a benchmark for the advancement of artificial intelligence, even though AI can...

Interstellar certainly wasn't a perfect movie, but it did have one huge advantage in the form of scientific consulting from Kip...

The upcoming film Ex Machina explores a twisted version of the Turing Test, featuring an eerily human-like robot named Ava. But is Ava...

In the upcoming Ant-Man movie, Paul Rudd plays a "superhero" who isn't exactly super on his own. Like Iron Man and Batman, his...

Following the success of works like The Walking Dead, 28 Days Later, and World War Z, zombies have seen something of a renaissance in...

If only Jordan Hoffman had known when he re-watched and ranked all 700 episodes of Star Trek that he could have gotten a legitimate...

Theoretical physicist Kip Thorne's scientific contributions to Christopher Nolan's Interstellar are well-documented, but that didn't...

The first trailer for Jurassic World came out today, but before we've seen enough of the new movie to complain about inconsistencies...

Could Tony Stark's arc reactor exist in real life? Probably not, but Gizmodo's Ryan Carlyle made a valiant attempt to explain an...

Still don't know what the hell happened in Interstellar? Watch this Discovery Channel special on the hard science behind Christopher...

In the recently released Avengers: Age of Ultron footage that premiered during Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., the Avengers step up one by one...