“The Fifth Element” is set in the distant future — some 250 years from now, as Earth is about to be destroyed by the Great Evil. Humanity’s only hope rests on the fifth element. A former ...

When politics and science align, it is easy to think science is apolitical. But the situation in the US today shows how science has always been fuelled by politics, says Annalee Newitz ...

Growing up on a healthy dose of The Jetsons, Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon and Futurama, I learned to be obsessed with the future ... In this series of futuristic pictures, Jean-Marc Côté and ...

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles is ... at different time periods depicting the future and what they're bringing to that imagined future, their own anxieties and concerns.

People have always imagined the future, but starting in the 20th century, these visions involved more and more technology. So says science historian Peter Bowler, author of A History of the Future ...

"These creatures come from the future—an imagined future ... "It is the imaginary and fantasy side of science that I am interested in, its fictional and extraordinary potential." ...

as scientists cannot keep up with our own imagined futures. As the line between real-world science and science fiction becomes increasingly fluid, the future is closer that it has ever felt before.

Over the years, many have dreamed about what a future New York might look like. BBC Future presents the best retro visions of the Big Apple. New York City has often embodied the cutting edge of ...

Recently, I’ve grown interested in Latin American writers who explore an imagined future through speculative fiction. This approach isn’t simply science fiction written in Spanish and set in Peru.