Beckett Oczkowski from Southampton was named the second-grade winner for Pennsylvania-based Reach Cyber Charter School’s 2026 Winter STEM Challenge. Aidan McDonagh and Ethan McDonagh from New Hope ...

Two different ways to tell the same story. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Science fiction is not monolithic. There are, in fact, ...

Haya Sukhera from Waynesboro was named the winner for Pennsylvania-based Reach Cyber Charter School’s 2026 Winter STEM Challenge in the High School Digital Machines category. Reach Cyber Charter ...

"Project Hail Mary" is a modern sci-fi hit that explores how a sun might die and how the human race could find a way to survive in that hypothetical scenario. In the film, fictional microorganisms ...

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Astronomers have discovered seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around the baby sunlike star providing *** peek into the start of our own solar system. The the thing that we've discovered is ...

Some writers focus on moral subtext in their works. Others, an overarching lesson. But for Andy Weir, there’s only one driving approach to creating his bestselling novels: science first. “There’s ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. [CLIP: The spaceship Hail Mary’s operating system (played by Priya Kansara) speaks in ...

As an astrophysicist, my world revolves around the wonders of space and the mysteries of the universe. This means I can be a tough critic of science fiction books and films that explore these topics.

Once upon a time, information arrived printed on paper, rolled into a tube, and tossed through the air to arrive on a lawn or doorstep. There’s a witty callback to this practice, known as “delivering ...