But my continued appreciation for the series wasn't a product of frights alone. Like King's novel and the film adaptations ...

The performances helped ground the wild premise. McCormack shed his Will & Grace charm to deliver a quietly tortured ...

Great songwriters understand that they should be seeking inspiration wherever they can find it. In the case of Jimmy Webb and his classic song “The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress”, he found it in the works ...

A new study tested a device trained to translate four participants' inner thoughts. Andriy Onufriyenko via Getty Images In recent years, scientists have been working on technology that could help ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

Welcome to Lit Trivia, the Book Review’s regular quiz about books, authors and literary culture. This week’s installment is focused on science fiction novels that envisioned certain ideas and ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Living in today’s age of ambitious robotic ...

Though the series’ protagonist is an alien, the show’s science fiction elements were relatively subtle in the early seasons. Harry spends as much time investigating the murder of the town’s last ...

The current cultural fascination and frustration with artificial intelligence is nothing new. As far back as the 1921 Czech play R.U.R. — the workers-rights story that first coined the term “robot” — ...

Four centuries ago, Johannes Kepler established three laws of planetary motion that accurately describe how planets in the solar system orbit the Sun. That might be enough for most; however, befitting ...