"Duffy to announce nuclear reactor on the moon" is not a headline I imagined reading before last week. Sure, as a sci-fi loving nerd, I could see a future where nuclear power played a role in permanent Moon settlements.

For millennia, developing resilient crops relied on pollination by nature or humans—making the process long and often costly. Now, scientists from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have reimagined the pollination process by developing a new system that uses gene editing to create flowers that can be easily pollinated by AI-controlled robots working round the clock.

Evidence is mounting that the evolution of our species is more convoluted than we imagined — more like a braided stream than a branching tree.

To transform Mars into a new bioengineered Eden for human colonists, scientists have resurrected sci-fi juggernaut Arthur Clarke as ArthurGPT to map out the mega-mission.

It sounds fictional, but the “science fiction science” or “sci-fi-sci” method is meant to predict the effects of real upcoming technologies on society before things take a dystopian turn. Researchers are attempting to apply the scientific method to technologies that are still speculative,