The best sci-fi anime goes beyond technology to focus on the people who use it and how it affects their life and world.

Netflix adapted a popular novel into a complex hard sci-fi series that trusts viewers to engage with its scientific concepts.

Exploring the foundational classics, international gems, and psychological thrillers that built the modern genre ...

Sci-fi masterpieces like Metropolis, Arrival, and Stalker are among the absolute greatest movies ever in the genre.

Some classic science fiction movies made sweeping predictions for the future. In some cases, those predictions never came to pass, but in others, the movies were strikingly on point. Predictions about ...

Editor’s Note, October 14, 2021: A previous version of this article misnamed John W. Campbell as James W. Campbell. The story has been edited to correct that fact. Mark Strauss is the Departments ...

Future technologies are rapidly moving from science fiction ideas into early-stage prototypes, real-world testing, and limited commercial use, making the gap between imagination and reality smaller ...

Science fiction has always occupied a fascinating place in popular culture. It entertains audiences with distant galaxies, impossible machines, and futuristic societies, but it also serves another ...

Person of Interest, The Expanse, and Continuum are some of the best sci-fi shows from the 2010s and are genuinely perfect ...

Some inventors find their inventive spark through science fiction. Tasers, for example, were inspired by (and named after) the 1911 novel Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle.[1] Likewise, Motorola’s ...

The videophone had a very long road to becoming mainstream. Once envisioned as a standalone device, the tech kind of snuck up on us in the 21st century via the backdoor of our phones and other devices ...

Our modern technological society owes a lot to Star Trek. Since its debut in 1966, the show has been predicting the future of science and computing. The Federation’s flip-open communicators were a ...