The orbits of a trio of stars can be so chaotic that it’s impossible to precisely calculate the stars’ future trajectories. That’s the real science behind the name of the hit Netflix show, 3 Body ...

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Some science facts sound impossible, but they’re real. These examples show how strange reality can get once you look closer.

The film adaptation of Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary has positioned itself as a serious science fiction effort, one that consulted real space scientists and drew from actual astrophysics research. But ...

What if you could live forever? It’s an idea scientists have tossed around for ages as our understanding of the human body continues to grow. But one science fiction series sidesteps the idea of ...

When I used to teach English and what was then called “general studies” to budding scientists, one of the essay questions I most often set for them ran more or less as follows: “Should a country’s ...