15 December 2021
Plants play a starring role in sci-fi films surprisingly often, but the botany in movies like The Martian, Sunshine and Prometheus doesn't always stack up, writes James Wong
8 September 2021
Most animals that lived in the Cambrian period were small enough to rest comfortably in the palm of your hand – but Titanokorys was much bigger
1 May 2020
The Tully Monster is a famously odd 300-million-year-old fossil that looks like an alien, but a new analysis suggests it was a backboned animal like a hagfish or lamprey
11 March 2020
The plot of sci-fi movie Little Joe may sound like it plays to powerful 1990s anti-GM fears but bigger issues like human freedom may really be at stake
4 March 2020
It’s 2038 and Earth's trees are dead, bar some firs on a tiny island. The tale of what happened is an epic combining sci-if, mystery and an exposé of capitalism, says Sally Adee
20 November 2019
Sentient machines with empathy and morality are coming. We urgently need to make some life-and-death decisions about their rights
28 August 2019
In her latest sci-fi column, Helen Marshall finds simmering revolution against the tech moguls in two new novels, The Warehouse and The Return of the Incredible Exploding Man
24 April 2019
See medieval depictions of spirits and the cosmos, explore the human condition through equations, and catch fan-funded film Iron Sky: The Coming Race
2 January 2019
From what to do about Einstein to tricks for survival to doing away with sexist neurotrash, it is looking like a good year for books
5 December 2018
Tackle Anarchy Softworks' latest video game, try a book about ancient robots or see the big screen version of sci-fi yarn Mortal Engines
