Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. [CLIP: The spaceship Hail Mary’s operating system (played by Priya Kansara) speaks in ...

Science projects can be a load of fun. Kids come home from school and have to tell you about the bean plant they are growing or the awesome explosion that comes when baking soda and vinegar mix. As ...

Every once in a while, a science-fiction movie comes along that reminds you why the genre can be so much fun. Not just “spaceships and explosions” fun, but the kind of fun that comes from big ideas, ...

It’s been a minute since we’ve had a big screen space epic that’s as fun as it is awe inspiring. The last memorable one might have been “The Martian,” so perhaps it shouldn’t be all that surprising ...