Science Fiction Barely Ahead of Space Exploration Reality
Science and space exploration have caught up to science fiction in many ways, producing marvels beyond the imaginings of the visionary writers of the past. Yet there are staples of science fiction that current technology is still leagues away from attaining, and which some doubt can ever be achieved. full story
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Living a science fiction dream
TAKE a walk through a human brain? Fly over the surface of Mars? US scientists are pushing science fiction closer to reality with a wraparound virtual world.
news.com.au (3 months ago)
Science Fiction Comes Alive as Researchers Grow Organs
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wsj.com (2 months and 1 day ago)
Star Trek-style holodeck becomes reality as scientists invent 3D vitual reality system
Scientists in the United States have turned science fiction into reality with a wrap-around virtual reality screen where researchers can visualise their data in three dimensions.
telegraph.co.uk (3 months ago)
Adam Roberts: last of the SF writers
Jack Glass is Adam Roberts's most fan-friendly novel to date, but will that be enough to win him a Hugo award?The worst thing that ever happened to science fiction was getting confused with genre fiction. If any kind of literature relies on the new and the innovative to excite the reader it is SF. Genre fiction recycles, repeats and repackages the same old ideas. Space...
guardian.co.uk (3 months and 5 days ago)
Truth turns out to be far stranger than science fiction as Nasa Kepler space telescope discovers weird planets
The truth is out there, but when it comes to the search for other planets beyond our Solar System the truth has turned out to be far stranger than science fiction.
independent.co.uk (2 months and 11 days ago)
Nasa Kepler space telescope discovers weird planets as truth turns out to be far stranger than science fiction
The truth is out there, but when it comes to the search for other planets beyond our Solar System the truth has turned out to be far stranger than science fiction.
independent.co.uk (2 months and 12 days ago)
Washington Turns Science to Science Fiction
Government has replaced science with, well, fiction. Consider the push for renewable fuels.
townhall.com (3 months and 5 days ago)
GNA teacher vying for space trip
It's probably fair to say that every student at one point has a teacher they would like to blast into outer space. Some students in the Greater Nanticoke Area High School might actually get to do it. Anthony Fleury, science teacher and space exploration
citizensvoice.com (1 month and 21 days ago)
Space Tourists Get Ready. Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Makes First Powered Flight.
Several years ago I was at the launch of Virgin Galactic in London’s Science Museum. At the time the prospect of space tourists seems more like science fiction than a realistic proposition or business venture.
forbes.com (19 days ago)
Telepathy shifts towards science fact
TELEPATHIC communication could be close to breaking out of the realm of science fiction and becoming a reality after the creation of the first brain-to-brain interface.
news.com.au (3 months and 3 days ago)
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