What defines the sub-genre known as "hard" science fiction? It's a term that might be useful to understand with the recent release of Netflix's 3 Body Problem. The series is based on the Remembrance ...

Are you looking for rock hard sci-fi? Sci-fi you could use to cut glass? Sci-fi so solid you could heave it through the tempered alumino-silicate glass pane separating a starship’s interior from the ...

This blog was co-authored by Gregg Henriques, Ph.D., and John Vervaeke, Ph.D. Since the dawn of human consciousness, people have grappled with the problem of what it is and how it works. In academic ...

What’s the best way to solve hard problems? That’s the question at the heart of a subfield of computer science called computational complexity theory. It’s a hard question to answer, but flip it ...

Robert Hazen and Michael Wong discuss their bold proposal for a new law of nature, centered around the idea that information is as fundamental to the cosmos as mass, energy or charge. Most organic ...