You’re walking home on a busy day, exhausted and longing for a couch. As you round the corner, a blur whizzes past, and the roar of wind fills your ears. You stare curiously at the fading figure — a ...

NPR's A Martínez asks National Geographic writer Maddie Stone about some of the real science behind the fictional world of "Dune." Fans of the sci-fi world of "Dune" are waiting for the next episode ...

We live in an era where information is more accessible than ever before. Paradoxically, this hasn’t made us wiser—it’s made us more vulnerable to misinformation. Pseudoscience, once confined to the ...

These frantic words, uttered by Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio) in one of the first scenes in Netflix’s upcoming sci-fi comedy, Don’t Look Up, convey the urgency of the situation facing him and Ph.D ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

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 ...

On two Saturdays this spring, the campus will be filled with aspiring middle and high school scientists displaying projects ranging from hair health to binding agents in bubble gum, as Smith hosts the ...

Modern "alternative" experts undermine the Iron Rule of Science. Source: Image from Mart Productions on Pexels. People in the U.S. have much less trust in institutions than they used to, from churches ...

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