science fiction

Incorporating alien lore, Patrick Chiles's novel “Interstellar Medic: The Long Run" takes a medic into space to serve the galaxy.

Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) has raised more than $1.8 billion, the largest private investment in the nuclear fusion ...

H.G. Wells anticipated the tank. The movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" anticipated commercial space flight (albeit more than 16 years ...

Panasonic has debuted several power assist devices that seem to be straight out of science fiction classics.   Released ...

Cannibalism isn’t what it used to be.

The technology already exists to implant and erase memories in the brain, and to use one person's mind ...

In a way, there have been cyborgs among us for decades—anyone with a prosthetic limb, for example. But ...

Imagine all you could do if you were invisible. But invisibility is just a pipe dream, isn’t it? ...

NASA has been talking recently of plans to put astronauts in suspended animation. A hospital in Pennsylvania is ...

The dystopia imagined by a science fiction author was inspired by reports of organ harvesting in China.

Inventor, investor, and business magnate Elon Musk has recently said that the days of Terminator-style robots taking over ...

The tractor beam featured in popular science fiction movies and shows such as "Star Trek," "Star Wars," and ...

I'm really into science fiction. Yes, it's true. Really into it. I'm one of those annoying types that ...

What if you predicted what the world would be like hundreds, or even thousands of years from now, ...