It’s not a simple thing to describe, but when I do explain it I say that WonderStump is part art gallery, part playground, ...

Some inventors find their inventive spark through science fiction. Tasers, for example, were inspired by (and named after) the 1911 novel Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle.[1] Likewise, Motorola’s ...

Red pill or blue pill? Utopia or dystopia? At PST Art — the largest art event in the U.S.— two major shows ask what science fiction says about the modern world. By Evan Nicole Brown Culture Writer ...

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Julie Gould is a freelance journalist in London, and produces the Nature Careers Podcast. In the first episode of this six-part Working Scientist podcast series, Julie Gould explores the history of ...

Science fiction has an uncanny ability to predict the future. In its pages or on the screen, sci-fi, from the time of Jules Verne onward, has envisioned technological advances, societal ...

The sprawling California festival “PST Art” promises a dialogue between “two cultures.” But painting and physics may have more in common than their practitioners know. By Jason Farago One spring ...

Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in the May 10, 1980 issue of America as “Science Fiction and Religion.” Science fiction and religion walking—or jetting—hand in hand? Shades of the ...

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