Science Of Sci-Fi

How does Voyager I stack up against the Delorean?

Scientists rank which Hollywood movies get it right, and which get it very, very wrong.

Thank you to everyone who came to our panel at SDCC! We had a ton of fun, as panelists Fon Davis (production designer, Star Wars...

Thursday is generally a less eventful day at SDCC, but NASA's "Turning Science Fiction into Science Fact" panel did not disappoint....

On AMC's Humans, eerily human-like androids called Synths have become staples in every household, as ubiquitous as iPads and iPhones....

There are a lot of things wrong with Terminator: Genisys, not the least of which is the completely wonky altered timeline. But while...

Just like jetpacks will soon be changing the face of EMTs, Star Wars style hoverbikes may soon be coming to the military.A deal...

According to a bonafide scientific paper, Interstellar should be shown to students as an accurate portrayal of a wormhole.

How would the human body cope with being shrunk down to 'Ant Size'?

Jurassic Park could never happen, but we love it anyway.

What if animals banded together to try to take back the world from humanity? The question sounds pretty absurd, but it’s a question...

If there’s one thing science fiction loves to predict, it’s future warfare. Unfortunately, the real world is offering up plenty of...

When it comes to pulling a John Hammond and cloning dinosaurs, the scientific community is generally agreed that a real-life Jurassic...

Velociraptors would have looked more like particularly vicious turkeys than the monsters we saw in Jurassic Park's kitchen scene.

The seismologist who consulted on the script for San Andreas claims that the filmmakers mostly ignored his advice.

Boeing and the U.S. military are currently testing prototypes for laser weapons, like those used in Star Trek or Star Wars.

From Ultron to the Cybermen, sci-fi tells us that "ethical robots" could easily decide to eliminate humanity for the greater good.

Will Stephen King's inflammatory predictions come true?

Why is science fiction more concerned with a robot's feelings than its intelligence?

Is it possible to genetically engineer dinosaurs? A renowned Paleontologist reveals how the humble chicken could be key to a real life...