It may one day be possible to put astronauts in a type of suspended animation similar to that seen in science fiction movies. The idea was brought to life following successful tests where ...

Stream it on Netflix. The polar opposite of “Párvulos” in every imaginable way is Han Ji-won’s animated K-romance. After he ...

In the 1999 science-fiction film, Neo discovers that the universe is a simulation — but one scientist believes that the idea isn’t all fiction. Dr. Melvin Vopson, ...

Science fiction often exaggerates or distorts science for dramatic effect—but many movies and TV shows have a nugget of realism at their core. SCIENCE We asked scientists about sci-fi movies.

Getting science to inhabit the imaginations of the public is valuable, but science fiction can also help scientists expand their own imaginative capacities. “Science fiction and science have a ...

His work has shown that nods to science fiction in computer-science papers have gone up in recent years, and that computer scientists have used fictional depictions of human-robot relationships ...

Carlo Quintanilla, today a science policy analyst at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, enjoyed communicating the real-world applications of science to people, but noticed ...

Scientists recently announced they had found potential signs of life on a planet 124 light years from Earth. ... What was once the exclusive province of science fiction has now become science fact.