Science Behind the Fiction

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Here's how we're creating real superhumans, like in The Boys
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Could the simian world of Planet of the Apes actually be our future?
Cassidy Ward
May 27, 2020
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Can you really survive a blizzard inside a tauntaun? Science says...
Cassidy Ward
May 20, 2020
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Can you store data in DNA like Solar Opposites' weirdly adorable terraforming pupa?
Cassidy Ward
May 13, 2020
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Tony Stark looked into our scientific future in Iron Man 2. How close are we to assembling it?
Cassidy Ward
May 6, 2020
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Could a rabbit really kill a person and other pressing Monty Python and the Holy Grail questions
Cassidy Ward
Apr 29, 2020
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30 years later, we can create false memories, Total Recall-style
Cassidy Ward
Apr 22, 2020
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What Outbreak gets wrong — and what it gets right — about viral spread
Cassidy Ward
Apr 15, 2020
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The bizarre biology of Adventure Time's Jake the Dog
Cassidy Ward
Apr 8, 2020
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How to make a real-life Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, ooze and all
Cassidy Ward
Apr 1, 2020
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How do you defeat death, sci-fi style? With nanobots, ice, and computers, of course
Cassidy Ward
Mar 25, 2020
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Is free will an illusion like Devs and Westworld suggest? The answer may horrify you
Cassidy Ward
Mar 18, 2020
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How to build a body from scratch, Altered Carbon-style
Cassidy Ward
Mar 11, 2020
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How invisibility would wreck your body and destroy your DNA
Cassidy Ward
Mar 4, 2020
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The Invisible Man's tech is (sort of) within sight
Cassidy Ward
Mar 2, 2020
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Star Trek's warp speed travel would have tragic consequences
Cassidy Ward
Feb 26, 2020
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