Octavia E. Butler transformed sci-fi with visionary stories on race and identity, yet mainstream fame eluded her. Her legacy ...

Larry Niven's Ringworld won him the Hugo and Nebula awards when it was published 55 years ago. As the New Scientist Book Club ...

The Nine Old Men was a collective term for a team of animators who had begun their careers with the Disney studio in its ...

This year, the scientific community is celebrating the 100th anniversary of quantum mechanics, which changed our ...

The advent of generative artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping education in ways once confined to science fiction. Today, in many classrooms, AI assistants can draft essays in seconds, refine ...

The Galveston Steampunk Festival returns for its third edition this weekend with a new location and new events.

T he seventh season of Black Mirror is, relatively speaking, quite good. I say this as a longtime skeptic of creator Charlie ...

Their best case for dance’s utopian elements is the sheer wit and pleasure of the exhibit itself, which sweeps you up in ways that few shows with this many internal citations can. But they say yes in ...

A diehard "Star Trek" fan, Steve Mulroy created the first Star Trek Day in Shelby County in 2015 when he was a county ...

Em dashes have been derided as the “ChatGPT hyphen” — a punctuation mark overused by artificial intelligence. That’s not ...

As Bangladesh stands at the edge of an ambitious digital transformation, the introduction of Starlink -- SpaceX’s ...

Imagine that all of us—all of society—have landed on some alien planet and need to form a government: clean slate. We do not have any legacy systems from the United States or any other country. We do ...