Science Of Sci-Fi

Star Trek is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, and the franchise is celebrating with both Star Trek Beyond and a new TV...

Global warming is a huge problem, and it's not going away anytime soon. As of this week, every single month in 2016 has been the...

Long Beach Comic Con is coming up next month, which means that the science-minded Space Expo is making a comeback. While all Comic...

Is Disney trying to build real-life lightsabers for their Star Wars 'Galaxy's Edge' theme park? Well, no, not in the sense that...

Spoilers for Stranger Things season 1 follow!If you've watched the first season of Stranger Things (and if not, what are you waiting...

This year is Star Trek's 50th anniversary, and Trekkies are getting plenty of celebrations. In addition to the panel at San Diego...

It was one of the most feared weapons in the Empire's armory, causing devastation and destruction just about everywhere it went. No,...

Sometimes real-life science is able to catch up with the speculative technology in science fiction--usually Star Trek--but more often...

BB-8 has been beloved by Star Wars fans ever since he showed up in the first teaser, and even more so when he was revealed to be an...

Aquaman might be the butt of a lot of jokes, but most fans would still jump at the opportunity to hold a real-life Aquaman trident....

Star Trek has predicted and inspired countless modern technologies, notably the cell phone, the tablet, and (possibly) portable...

What would happen if you decapitated Deadpool? In the movie, we saw that he can re-grow entire body parts with his regeneration...

In the X-Men universe, Cyclops has the ability to emit high-energy beams from his eyes that destroy anything in their path. Now, you...

In season one of the groundbreaking, critically acclaimed USA show Mr. Robot, hackers use a program to take down a huge...

Superheroes peppered in every comic book universe have the power to "phase" through objects, from Marvel's Vision and Kitty Pryde to...

Get ready for the ultimate Star Wars virtual reality experience, as Lucasfilm has just teamed up with VR company Magic Leap to create...

Dubbed a "Tatooine planet" because, like its Star Wars counterpart, it orbits two suns, Kepler-1647b is a recently discovered planet...

We always suspected that, physically speaking, Batman was a little outmatched in a fight against Superman. But now, we have scientific...

Artificial Intelligence is getting very good at a number of things, playing Settlers of Catan, humans at Go, and judging beauty...

Daleks aren't known for their magnanimity towards the human race, but it looks like one of them just unwittingly helped us save some...