Science Of Sci-Fi

A zombie apocalypse is probably fairly low on humanity's list of concerns; we're much more likely to be wiped out by nuclear war,...

Happy New Year, tech enthusiasts! As his New Year's resolution, mad scientist Mark Zuckerberg is attempting to create his very own...

The first season finale of the X-Files is based on a real-life X-File.

Science fiction could once again become science fact if scientists succeed in their goal to create real-life force fields for...

Though the possibility of traveling to the future has been known since Einstein came up with the theory of relativity, most people...

Neil DeGrasse Tyson has become an expert at scientific nitpicking of popular culture, so of course he had to turn his critical eye...

A handy Star Wars superfan makes an awesome mini flamethrower lightsaber.

Everything makes a little too much noise in Star Wars.

In the Star Trek universe, the officers on the Enterprise had access to a useful little gadget called the Universal Translator, which...

Nail DeGrasse Tyson stokes the flames of the Star Wars versus Star Trek debate- again.

NASA roboticist Brett Kennedy claims that the physics of BB-8 "just doesn't work out," which is blasphemy. Luckily, he compares him to...

In the 1978 Superman film, Superman travels back in time by flying around the Earth at such high speeds that he reverses the spin of...

The Star Wars Rebel Alliance might have triggered a massive depression.

The Star Wars versus Star Trek debate answered once and for all.

The Martian was a huge commercial and critical hit, satisfying fans of Andy Weir's immensely popular novel and even getting Oscar buzz...

If the asteroid that caused the dinosaur extinction missed, could humans and dinosaurs have lived at the same time? That's the...

Mr. Freeze is arriving on Gotham sometime next year, and as it turns out, a real-life Mr. Freeze could be making an appearance even...

In the highly popular and acclaimed new movie The Martian, based on the novel by Andy Weir, protagonist Mark Watney is forced to grow...

We've seen many Star Trek-esque technologies come to fruition, including transparent aluminum, molecular scanners, and, of course,...

Today is Back to the Future Day, and while most of us dream of traveling back in time in a DeLorean, superfan and prominent physicist...