Have you ever dreamed of traveling through time, like characters do in science fiction movies? For centuries, the concept of…
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Real-world technology is often foretold by science fiction. In 1927, characters in the film Metropolis made video calls to each other. Star…
Military planning is a complicated endeavour, calling upon experts in logistics and infrastructure to predict resource availability and technological advancements.…
On the morning of June 17, China launched its long-awaited Shenzhou-12 spacecraft, carrying three Chinese astronauts – or taikonauts – towards…
Modern transhumanism is the belief that, in the future, science and technology will enable us to transcend our bodily confines. Scientific advances…
Science fiction is brimming with visions of the future and the many wondrous things the human race can achieve. But it is full of warnings too – and we should be careful to take heed of some of the big messages that are more relevant now than they ever were before.
You can tell you’ve reached adulthood by the things you wish were real in your favourite sci-fi. When I was…
Russian author Boris Zhitkov wrote the 1931 short story Microhands, in which the narrator creates miniature hands to carry out…
Chances are, you’ve seen a person using a powered exoskeleton – what you might think of as a sort of…