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Featured in science fiction

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Why orange skies fill us with a sense of impending doom

Filmmakers use color wheels created by Isaac Newton to match sci-fi scenes to viewers' emotions.
By Jun 8, 2020
Science

What if you could design the perfect child?

A science-fiction take on the future of CRISPR and embro editing.
By Nov 13, 2019
Science

The historical significance of Harry Styles’ nipples, explained

And other weird things we learned this week.
By Oct 15, 2019
Entertainment

Seven science fiction inventions that became reality

Sci-fi authors wanted to prevent dystopian futures. Instead they predicted them.
By Oct 8, 2019
Technology

How to send messages 10,000 years into the future

Linguists, designers, and scientists are scheming up ways to break a language barrier that doesn’t exist (yet).
By Sep 26, 2019
Technology

How science fiction could save us from bad technology

Speculation through ‘design fiction’ helps expose human biases—for better and for worse.
By Aug 22, 2019
Science

How predicting the future shifted from fiction to fact—and what we lost along the way

Consider the brain in a vat.
By Jul 4, 2019
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The science fiction podcasts every nerd should listen to

To help you ignore your dystopian reality.
By May 4, 2018
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We could move to another planet with a spaceship like this

Our best guess for what it would take to get to planets that are really, really far away.
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Science

Here’s how Popular Science covered ‘Star Trek’ in 1967

From the December '67 issue: 'TV's Star Trek: How they mix science fact with fiction.'