Directed energy weapons’ are a cheap way to hit a lot of targets – and militaries around the world are taking notice.

Speculative fiction is the literature of change — which is another way of saying that resilience is in its bones. Many of genre fiction’s iconic works are about facing the worst, from Isaac Asimov’s ...

Using the internet and then, later, internet culture used to be a rather nerdy thing. But ever since the introduction of the smartphone, where the internet wasn’t something that dwelled in your living ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Exploding trees may be taking over your social media feed, but a local gardening expert says you are unlikely to see them in your own backyard. Rick Vuyst, the former CEO ...

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In recent months, some of the major players in science fiction and popular culture have been taking firmer stances against generative AI. Separate decisions by San Diego Comic-Con and the Science ...

With a major winter storm about to blast pretty much every US state east of the Rocky Mountains, many are scrambling to prepare for the cold, ice, and snow. And according to popular meteorology ...

As we head into the weekend, a major winter storm system is going to slide some of the coldest air we’ve felt in years right over Michigan - and we’re going to be in a deep freeze for a few days. How ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — You may have read about this viral story online – a warning to be wary of “exploding trees”. But is it really something to be concerned about? While there is some science explaining ...

Scientists are uncovering new clues that a cosmic explosion may have rocked Earth at the end of the last ice age. At major Clovis-era sites, researchers found shocked quartz—evidence of intense heat ...

More than 50 years before ChatGPT could tell you what to cook for dinner, a 1968 science fiction film was shaping how we think about machines that talk to us. In 2001: A Space Odyssey, a Jupiter-bound ...

Scientists at the Very Large Array pick up the hivemind recipe from an extraterrestrial signal in Pluribus episode 1 Image: Apple These TV shows all grapple with this question in one way or another ...