While the robots imagined in science fiction novels have often looked like humans, today’s robotic armies are emerging in all shapes and sizes. Take the little army of bots made by SRI Inter... Read more
Plants have amazing and significant sensing capabilities. For instance, each single root apex can simultaneously and continuously monitor many chemical and physical parameters. Natural organ... Read more
So this is where they collared the man they call the Dread Pirate Roberts. It’s up a flight of stone steps, past the circulation desk and the Romance stacks, over in Science Fiction, far cor... Read more
Promises to be a free-floating, life-sized image which will hover an impressive eight feet from its projector Whether it was Princess Leia or the shark from Back to the Future 2, there was l... Read more
Lab lit is not science fiction In Barbara Kingsolver’s new novel, “Flight Behavior,” a central character is an entomologist tracking the effects of global climate change on monarch butterfli... Read more
The science behind it is closer than many people may think A dystopian society supported by genetically modified clone workers stands out among the six stories that make up the sprawling fil... Read more
Physicists say they can make money that can’t be copied—at least in theory Since the invention of paper money, counterfeiters have churned out fake bills. Some of their handiwork, cre... Read more
Virtual presences manifesting in the physical world Connecting human thought to a machine is a pursuit that once only existed in science fiction, but now Swiss scientists have made the impos... Read more
No matter how I look at this, it still seems like science fiction – a combat aircraft without a pilot that is capable of flying itself, making its own decisions, recognizing and neutralizing... Read more
Image via Wikipedia People are social creatures. Robots … not so much. When we think of robots, we think of cold, metallic computers without emotion. If science fiction has taught us anythin... Read more
Image via Wikipedia The visions of tomorrow inspire the actions we take today. Science fiction is as much a reflection of society’s deep fascination with science as it is an agent of c... Read more