Some science facts sound impossible, but they’re real. These examples show how strange reality can get once you look closer.

The film adaptation of Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary has positioned itself as a serious science fiction effort, one that consulted real space scientists and drew from actual astrophysics research. But ...

Like many of Christopher Nolan’s films, “Tenet” centers on a supposition that comes out of real science. Where “Interstellar” looked at wormholes and time travel, “Tenet” questions whether it’s ...

When I used to teach English and what was then called “general studies” to budding scientists, one of the essay questions I most often set for them ran more or less as follows: “Should a country’s ...