From Robert Heinlein’s Starship Troopers to Marvel’s Iron Man, science fiction is full of futuristic combat suits that provides a soldier with superhuman capabilities. The largest challenge with ...

“Pop culture has this huge power to shape peoples’ thinking,” says Timnit Gebru, a leading AI researcher working on the implications of bias in artificial intelligence. Science-fiction movies, TV ...

Greg Bear is the author of more than 30 science fiction and fantasy novels, some of them so prescient he’s been invited to closed-door consultations with government and military analysts trying to ...

I’m a video-game geek, so as I sat through movie previews a few weeks ago, I was sure I was watching Nintendo ads. There on the cinema’s screen was a super-sleek plane flying over a moonscape while ...