George Lucas and Steven Spielberg were pioneers in a science fiction revolution of film. Lucas reinvented the blockbuster with the hugely popular Star Wars trilogy from1977 whilst Spielberg created a ...

It wasn’t really until the late 19th century that fiction begin to engage with scientific possibility. The French novelist ...

Science fiction has an uncanny ability to predict the future. In its pages or on the screen, sci-fi, from the time of Jules Verne onward, has envisioned technological advances, societal ...

No matter how powerful generative AI becomes, writer Ted Chiang says it will never create true art. Chiang is one of the most admired science-fiction authors writing today, best known for the novella ...

Julie Gould is a freelance journalist in London, and produces the Nature Careers Podcast. In the first episode of this six-part Working Scientist podcast series, Julie Gould explores the history of ...

Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in the May 10, 1980 issue of America as “Science Fiction and Religion.” Science fiction and religion walking—or jetting—hand in hand? Shades of the ...

So, in no particular order, here they are: New Scientist’s favourite science fiction books of all time. We’d love to hear from readers, too, about your own favourite sci-fi. Join the conversation on ...

Those dastardly scientists are at it again, this time developing a neural chip that allows you to turn off sleep. Soon, everyone has one – and then it stops being possible to turn the chip off, and ...

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