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It's a useful fiction — but it's still fiction.

Instead of walking a mile in someone’s shoes, try reading a chapter in their book.

Perhaps wormholes will no longer be relegated to the realm of science fiction.

From forgotten Hollywood movies to Frank Herbert’s "Dune," science fiction illustrates some of our deepest fears about technology.

Jules Verne wrote about gasoline-powered vehicles, weapons of mass destruction, and global warming more than a century ago.

Quite a lot, actually, even though it has no identifiable value as a scientific concept.

Detective fiction reveals how a particular society or time period looks at crime and criminal justice.

According to Tolkien, fantasy requires a deep imagination known as "sub-creation." And the genre reflects a fundamental truth of being human.

Science fiction movies capture a classic human flaw: getting the future mostly wrong.

We imagine and debate the inner lives of literary characters, knowing there can be no truth about their real motives or beliefs. Could our own inner lives also be works of fiction?

We're separating the facts about EVs from the fiction.

Unfortunately, the Lunar Ark project is an idea more at home in science fiction than science fact.

The science fiction dream of a traversable wormhole is no closer to reality, despite a quantum computer's suggestive simulation.

Some scientists think brain organoids could develop a form of consciousness. Others say that's science fiction.

Poker pro Maria Konnikova on how to recognize which details matter and master the science of deduction.

For some people, the emotional pull of fictional characters is profoundly strong.

Why does time move forward but not backward? Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder explains.

The authors call it "wildly theoretical" — but let's take a look, anyway.

Fear is one of the oldest and most powerful emotions known to man, so it should come as no surprise that horror stories are as old as storytelling itself.

People naturally judge fact from fiction in offline social settings, so why is it so hard online?

Before Herbert came along and wrote Dune, few if any sci-fi stories were set in fully realized universes.

Dig a 70-mile tunnel under the Bering Strait, and you get this amazing InterContinental Railway, which will reshape the world.

The 1998 hit is making a comeback. Stop what you're doing and watch the original.

Reality is far stranger than fiction.

These enormous centipedes are straight out of science fiction.

What is Captain America doing in ancient Mesopotamia?

Until robots understand jokes and sarcasm, artificial general intelligence will remain in the realm of science fiction.

Distinguishing fact from fiction can be tough, especially when it comes to people as controversial as Stalin. 

In the future, people may look back with horror at how humans treated AI in the 21st century.

Equations that describe time travel are fully compatible and consistent with relativity — but physics is not mathematics.