Imagine building a car chassis without a blueprint or even a list of recommended construction materials. In a sense, that's precisely what a team of engineers did when they designed a one-of-a-kind ...

Science fiction has always needed materials that don't exist. How else do you explain a lightsaber, power a warp drive, or make a superhero's shield indestructible? Over a century of storytelling has ...

Everyone knows that the one thing that could weaken Superman was kryptonite. You might not realize it, but within your corporate culture your own version of ...

Near the beginning of director James Cameron’s “Avatar,” a greedy businessman itching to dig a mine on the planet Pandora utters a line that set some viewers to snicker. “This is why we’re here,” he ...

Imagine building a car chassis without a blueprint or even a list of recommended construction materials. In a sense, that’s precisely what a team of engineers at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

SETI Institute’s senior scientist Seth Shostak recently took on some implausible elements in “Avatar” on Space.com, most notably the feasibility of mining that precious mineral worth $20 million a ...

Singularity, Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), Quantum Computing, and Fusion Energy are in a four-way race. One will displace the Cold Fusion hype of Pons and Fleischmann as the most well-known ...