The decade saw the rise of riskier, more transgressive, and far more original and experimental sci-fi movies. Some of them have gone down in history as underappreciated cult classics, such as Mothra ...

But focus too much on matters of geopolitics, and you can lose sight of something arguably even more profound: Laser guns are ...

Paradoxes, time loops, and multiverses; these science fiction novels  are the gold standard of time travel. From H.G. Wells ...

A visually arresting adaptation trades Martian menace for Enoch Powell-era paranoia – technically dazzling, politically pointed, yet also confusing ‘National emergency to repel invaders,” is the ...

Marco Rubio rightly urges Europeans to remember their religious origins.

Physicists artificially slowed down time to reveal the bizarre Terrell-Penrose effect, a consequence of special relativity. This image from the experiment shows a sphere seemingly moving at 99.9 ...

There's been many a time machine in science fiction stories, but Back to the Future's DeLorean beats them all.

As we enter spring at last, theatres across the county have lined up a whole roster of shows to brighten you days even ...

Gugusse et l'Automate In the brief silent film, Méliès portrays a magician named Gugusse who is showing off an “automaton” in what looks like a proto–robot manufacturing facility. The automaton is ...

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