The film adaptation of Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary has positioned itself as a serious science fiction effort, one that consulted real space scientists and drew from actual astrophysics research. But ...

Researchers have chased mind over matter for more than a century, but the effect keeps shrinking as the studies get bigger.

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Awesome Con provided an opportunity for science fiction and real-life science to play off of one another. The Robot from Netflix's Lost in Space reboot (center) illustrates the former, while the NASA ...

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In most cases, science fiction films err on the side of fiction rather than reality. Sometimes a film, such as Star Wars, is a fantasy film disguised as a sci-fi spectacle, or a film will deviate so ...

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How can consumers evaluate the accuracy of science information in media? What factors can influence how media frame and build narratives around science information? Students learn to ask those ...