This is the opening of Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars, the New Scientist Book Club read for April, as humans come to the ...

Modern-day LLMs are "fiction machines," designed not to be truthful but to make sense. What can we expect from these machines, and what are their limitations?

The octopus — with tentacles splayed, gripping the globe — was a staple of European antisemitic caricature in the lead-up to ...

It's rare that a film adaptation outshines its source material but science fiction has given us several remarkable examples ...

This October, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will take an unprecedented step, showcasing the careers of artists Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock as equals. Krasner and Pollock: Pas ...

The Federal Communications Commission said that it had approved the local television giant Nexstar’s $6.2 billion acquisition ...

Italian American physicist Enrico Fermi once asked, “if we live in an infinite universe with infinite capacity for life, why haven’t we seen any aliens?” This question is known as the Fermi Paradox – ...

Raduga was facing the same challenge, only instead of clipping his hair with scissors, he was drilling into his skull, and ...

India, in the twenty-first century, stands tall as a nation of remarkable economic growth and military strength. Ranked among ...

By Moses Bhagwan The final farewell service of Dr Rupert Roopnaraine (the proceedings introduced and guided  by Dr Alissa ...

Controversy in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Durban over the two priests who practise traditional healing has reignited debate about syncretism, culture and doctrine within the Catholic Church.

Arts, entertainment, film, festivals and more events happening this week in the greater Capital Region from Thursday, Feb. 26 ...