March 24, 2025 • Early in the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists predicted the SARS-CoV-2 virus would mutate slowly. They were wrong. Hundreds of thousands of viral mutations and ...

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Two upcoming Space Battleship Yamato models can now be pre-ordered, with one of them being old while the other one is made of gold -- literally.

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The boost in federal spending for SpaceX will come in part as a result of actions by President Trump and Elon Musk’s allies and employees who hold government positions. Supporters say he has the ...

Ordinarily, it would be great news for sci-fi fans when Netflix debuts a big-budget movie like The Electric State in our favorite genre. Unfortunately, this one is not a very good movie, although ...

Mar. 12, 2025 — New research suggests black holes may transition into 'white holes', ejecting matter and potentially even time back into the universe, defying our current understanding of these ...

A team of about 150 restorers fuses scientific analysis and traditional techniques to clean, patch up and otherwise revive the more than 1.8 million relics in the collection of Beijing's Forbidden ...

Are your kids totally into time travel? Superfans of space adventures? Our list of sci-fi favorites has something for all the young science fiction book lovers out there. From classics to hot new ...