Will flying cars ever really take off?
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Flying cars have been the stuff of science fiction for years, and now companies are now starting to look at such options. But what will it take to get our cars off the ground?
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The Star Wars saga is interlinked with its merchandising success.
They’re back: Gamora (Zoe Saldana), Nebula (Karen Gillan), Peter Quill (Chris Pratt), Drax (Dave Bautista) and Rocket voice by Bradley Cooper).
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The Guardians of the Galaxy team are rocking the universe again in the latest volume of the science fiction blockbuster. But how does the science stand up to some number crunching?
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We need to imagine new types of borders in this era of fervent fence building.
Women dressed as handmaids promoting the TV series The Handmaid’s Tale.
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With a new TV series based on the novel - and its bleak vision of women’s rights - The Handmaid’s Tale is riding a new wave of popularity.
‘So, you’ve run out of lentils, eh?’
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If Doctor Who is supposed to respect members of other species, not all of his incarnations see eye to eye when it comes to dinner.
The TARDIS.
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Disappointed about Doctor Who’s TARDIS ending up at the wrong place at the wrong time? Don’t be – it’s incredibly precise.
William Riker (Jonathan Frakes) entering a Holodeck simulation.
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The technology needed to create a real Star Trek-like Holodeck is not that far out of reach.
Robotics as entertainment can help people engage with the real science.
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If you make science entertaining then people are prepared to pay attention.
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In the face of recent political events in Britain and America, sci-fi imaginings of the ‘citizens of the future’ have taken on a new resonance.
Colonising other planets may be possible, but does that mean we should?
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Interplanetary colonisation was once the stuff of science fiction but now there are plans to colonise Mars. How have film-makers and writers dealt with our rapacious Anthropocene age?
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At the heart of this 20-year-old show is a critique of the quest for absolute power.
Westworld: how far away is this future?
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Near-future science fiction is on the rise, but is it foreshadowing the rise of the machines?
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In this episode we look at historical visions of the future and how accurate they were, the future of work, and what it's like to predict the future for a day job.
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Once the subject of fantastical stories, nanoscience is now changing the world as we know it.
An artist’s impression of a Sun-like star close to a rapidly spinning supermassive black hole, with a mass of about 100 million times the mass of our Sun.
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The discovery of a new black hole adds to our understanding of these celestial objects that fascinate in both fact and fiction.
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Every crystal ball has a shelf life, even the most prescient.
Joanna Lumley (briefly) played the Doctor in 1999 Comedy Relief special The Curse of Fatal Death.
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In a universe of infinite possibility, why is Doctor Who always a man? Peter Capaldi’s forthcoming retirement from the role means it’s surely time to hand the sonic screwdriver over to a woman.
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There are whispers of crisis around the 53-year-old series.
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New HBO series reimagines a group of life-like robots programmed with hope but marred in violence. They might be more human than we think.