by seemingly innocuous things — common bacteria in “The War of the Worlds,” water in “Signs” — is not new in science fiction. The so-called Reapers that appear out of the blue to kill ...

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But are any of these theories and opinions based on science, or are they mostly science-fiction? Serial murder, which literally means killing people one after another, is committed by many types ...

Mar. 13, 2025 — Researchers devised a process to convert a skin cell directly into a neuron, eliminating the need to generate induced pluripotent stem cells. Such neurons could be used to treat ...

It feels like something out of science fiction," says Julia Victoria Seidel, a researcher at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile and lead author of the study, published today in Nature.

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"It feels like something out of science fiction." Many of the extraordinary features of WASP-121 b arise from the fact that it is an ultra-hot Jupiter, a gas giant planet with around 1.2 times the ...

Sigil version 2.4.2 is primarily a bugfix release with one new feature. It fixes a number of issues related to Python 3.13+ use. Also note that the Microsoft VC++ runtime redistributable is no longer ...

“The Garden” by Nick Newman reminds us that the true meaning of postapocalyptic fiction isn’t about how the world ends, but how we live after. Michelle de Kretser’s fiercely truth-seeking ...

If you played It Takes Two, you probably have a good idea of what you’re getting into with Split Fiction. You and a co-op partner hop back and forth between different fantasy and science fiction ...