A professor at the University of Tennessee reimagines the way we teach STEM with a science-fiction story-based class. In the beginning, a spaceship called the Yggdrasil is sailing through the cosmos ...

The serious academic study of science fiction dates from about 1960, though Damon Knight had published perceptive and influential criticism a dozen years earlier. The foremost pioneer was Thomas ...

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Thonotosassa, FL / / December 27, 2025 / Sam Toney Popular science fiction has long shaped public understanding of scientific possibility, yet studies suggest that many widely recognized sci-fi ...