That’s just how robots greet each other, it’s fine

Children of Time, about humans who leave a dying Earth for a terraformed planet where they meet a strange new species, praised for Clarkean sense of wonder

This mining company’s health and safety regulations are, frankly, suspect.

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We’re finally on the cusp of Star Trek’s grand return to TV with the impending arrival of Star Trek: Discovery, but there have been many attempts over the year to get Trek on TV that weren’t nearly as successful. Here are four times the franchise tried to launch a new show, but failed to make it off the ground.

Controlling the minds of others from a distance has long been a favourite science fiction theme – but recent advances in genetics and neuroscience suggest that we might soon have that power for real... By Catriona Houston.

The Story of an SF Horror Game-Changer

Reports of a strange, new habitable planet have reached the Twenty Planets of human civilization. When a team of scientists is assembled to investigate this world, exoethnologist Sara Callicot is recruited to keep an eye on an unstable crewmate.

Richard Holmes ponders the discoveries that inspired the young Mary Shelley to write her classic, 200 years ago.

Way back in time, in the mid 1950s, 10-year-old Ron Mallett was growing up in the Bronx when he happened upon a comic-book that had a curious contraption on the cover... By Will Storr.

What’s the worst that could happen??

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Good news: You're immortal. Bad news: Life as you know it is over. By Cara Rose DeFabio.

John Bluck, NASA Lewis Research Center and Dr. Carrie Heeter, Michigan State University

In celebration of Star Wars Celebration, Lucasfilm released this thrilling teaser trailer for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, in theaters December 16. With stills