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It was a big week for physics in the movies, with the premiere of Interstellar, and the Stephen Hawking biopic The Theory of Everything. That translates into lots of pixels commenting on the science... --

Last year CERN announced the finding of a new elementary particle, the Higgs particle. But maybe it wasn't the Higgs particle, maybe it just looks like it. And maybe it is not alone.

"Interstellar," the latest blockbuster film by Christopher Nolan that opened Friday, is a science-fiction movie set in the near future when humanity must depart Earth and find a new home. While the technology is certainl...

In upcoming sci-fi film, Ex Machina, writer and director Alex Garland gets ambitious. All we've got is a trailer so far. But it's a tantalizing clip that manages to run through...

In The Peripheral, the new stunner by cyberpunk godfather William Gibson, the reader is treated to a look at the future. It's inexact, this future. The author, delightfully, gives it...

Astronomers, using data from two NASA and one European spacecraft, have found that the Comet Siding Spring, which sailed by Mars on Oct. 19, spawned debris over the planet, creating a very strong layer of ionized particl...

The bizarre, convoluted nasal passages of tanklike armored dinosaurs may have helped the animals cool the blood headed to their tiny brains, preventing overheating.

Good designs do not need to be designs out of reach.

Nearly 70 distinct footprints from several prehistoric dinosaurs, mammals and a crocodile were recently unearthed at a diamond cave in Angola, making them the first tracks of their kind ever found in the African country.