Science fiction usually functions as a way to comment on modern society by envisioning what it might look like in the future. Contemporary societal ills may be exaggerated to point out how dire the ...

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Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Last year, in July, Reine Protacio’s experiments suddenly stopped working. Every scientist encounters baffling results from time to time; you chalk it up to ...

The neutrino “fog” is beginning to materialize. Lightweight subatomic particles called neutrinos have begun elbowing their way into the data of experiments not designed to spot them. Two experiments, ...

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INDIANAPOLIS — A Butler University student and a professor are proud as their research just launched on a rocket into outer space. They're studying the size of nanospheres to see if they can get them ...

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After 47 years, Star Wars: Skeleton Crew has subtly embraced one of the coolest ideas in science-fiction. Mark Hamill recently described Star Wars as a fairy tale dressed up as science-fiction, and he ...