Researchers were surprised to find giant gas planets orbiting quite near to their stars. Yet novelists had already imagined ...

This timeline sketches out some of the most exciting examples of times that science fiction became fact. It’s the work of io9-reader Isabelle Turner (who used, among other sources, this io9 open ...

Check out our guide to six science fiction devices that became real. While a brainwave-powered real-time translator that fits in your ear may still be a thing of the future, handheld translating ...

“Science fiction has become science fact,” University of Waterloo theoretical physicist Avery Broderick, one of the leaders of the research team of about 200 scientists from 20 ...

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we asked experts: What idea from science fiction would you most like to see become reality? 1. Instant messaging – across galaxies By Seth Shostak There are many concepts in science fiction that ...

There's not a lot of science fiction around these days, so pretty soon science will have to put up with being influenced by paranormal romance. *I never minded that working scientists were ...

Science fiction, with its new technologies and new ... creating a space where time, memory and identity become increasingly unstable. The novel's world is one where technology intersects with ...

This month’s challenge is about science fiction novels from the past 60 years that were adapted into television shows. Tap or click your answers to the five questions below. New literary quizzes ...

More than 5,900 of these exoplanets have been identified so far: What was once the exclusive province of science fiction has now become science fact. The title of Keith Cooper’s “Amazing ...