An asthmatic oyster, a sad sasquatch and a color-changing coral. All are characters in a collection of children’s stories written by Susquehanna University students and based on scientific research.

Explore the surprising connections between 'Star Wars' and real-world science. From moisture farming to space debris, discover the science behind the fiction.

Adriana Polito, originally from Glasgow but now living in Wigan, is releasing a free chapter a day from her 22-chapter ...

Ruth Spiro is a children’s author. Her new book, “ How to Explain Climate Science to a Grown-up ,” encourages kids to add climate change to that list. In the book, a child teaches a man how burning ...

Calvin senior Weston Fields became a published author for the second time. The Weather Belt is the second novel in a series ...

This month marks the third anniversary of our small but dynamic science reporting team. To celebrate, I’d like to share a story with you ... treating “science fiction” as news.

“What they’ve been able to do, it almost falls into the realm of science fiction. It’s so amazing– the technology that’s going on here.” The newly described method and prototype ...

science fiction. “When he keeps saying, you know, ‘We’re at a fork in the road. The future of human civilization depends on this election,’ he means SpaceX,” she tells David Remnick.

When we look for extraterrestrials, we often peer into the depths of space. But alien life might be closer than you think A false-colour depiction of the Occator crater on the dwarf planet Ceres, ...

Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” is considered by many to be the first true science-fiction novel. It deals with fears of cheating death through the story of a scientist who, in his delusions of grandeur ...

A provocative new theory suggests that the original Garden of Eden may not have been in Mesopotamia, roughly modern-day Iraq, as has been long-assumed — but rather in Egypt, under the towering ...