Skip to main content

Sci-Fi Topics Research

Multiple topics:

livescience.com/39825-reality-of-sci-fi-concepts.html

sciencemag.org

discovermagazine.com

scientificamerican.com

popsci.com

popularmechanics.com/

 

Teleportation/wormholes/black holes:

www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/blogs/physics/2013/12/trap-doors-in-time-and-space-teleportation-time-travel-and-escape-from-black-holes/

www.cnet.com/news/scientists-achieve-reliable-quantum-teleportation-for-the-first-time/

www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/12/physicists-figure-out-how-retrieve-information-black-hole

www.scientificamerican.com/article/gravitational-waves-discovered-from-colliding-black-holes1/ 

www.sciencemag.org/news/2013/12/link-between-wormholes-and-quantum-entanglement 

 

From 2003--can you find more updated info on this?: 
www.sciencemag.org/news/2003/06/popping-cork-wormhole-travel

www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/02/science-inspired-interstellar-and-film-now-returns-favor 

iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0264-9381/32/6/065001;jsessionid=2FD32C1192CE571D244A9C30269CD0B8.c3.iopscience.cld.iop.org 

 

Parallel universes:

www.physics.org/featuredetail.asp?id=33 

www.livescience.com/48806-parallel-worlds-quantum-mechanics-theory.html 

www.npr.org/2011/01/24/132932268/a-physicist-explains-why-parallel-universes-may-exist 

www.techtimes.com/articles/103346/20151105/scientist-may-have-found-proof-of-alternate-parallel-universe.htm

news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/03/140318-multiverse-inflation-big-bang-science-space/

blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/big-bang-ripples-makes-waves-in-cosmology-now-what/

www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2016/01/22/is-the-multiverse-a-scientific-theory/#424b7a8314af

 

Time travel:

www.physics.org/article-questions.asp?id=131

www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/blogs/physics/2013/12/trap-doors-in-time-and-space-teleportation-time-travel-and-escape-from-black-holes/

www.nbcnews.com/id/39152254/ns/technology_and_science-space/t/stephen-hawking-says-time-travel-should-be-possible-big-if/#.VsKdcpMrKi4

www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-09/emlooperem-and-real-science-time-travel

 

Space travel and space colonization:

www.scientificamerican.com/article/science-fiction-is-barely-ahead-of-space-exloration-reality/ 

www.space.com/13135-100-year-starship-symposium-darpa-nasa.html 

settlement.arc.nasa.gov/Basics/wwwwh.html

www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/03/the-coming-age-of-space-colonization/273818/

www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/06/no-wind-chill-mars

www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/10/international-space-station-home-potentially-dangerous-bacteria 

www.scientificamerican.com/video/5-unusual-ways-space-travel-affects-the-human-body/ 

www.scientificamerican.com/article/deep-space-landau-strange/ 

www.scientificamerican.com/article/space-to-grow/ 

www.scientificamerican.com/article/space-sail-voyage/ 

www.space.com/26603-interstellar-starship-colony-population-size.html 

www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/darwin-in-space-how-multigeneration-12-12-18/ 

www.businessinsider.com/space-colonization-could-make-humans-evolve-into-multiple-species-2015-6 

 

Extraterrestrial Life:

news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/01/160107-seti-aliens-clusters-astronomy-space/ 

www.scientificamerican.com/extraterrestrial-life/ 

www.physics.org/article-questions.asp?id=72

www.forbes.com/sites/briankoberlein/2016/01/23/dead-aliens-tell-no-tales-is-extraterrestrial-life-common-but-short-lived/#f71abbf3db89

www.seti.org/

www.seti.org/seti-institute/news/seti-scientist-explains-why-we-haven%E2%80%99t-found-aliens-yet

www.popularmechanics.com/space/deep-space/a9352/the-case-for-alien-life-15756398/

 

Human experimentation/Evolution/Genetic Engineering/Cloning:

www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-evolutionary-errors/ 

www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/12/embryo-editing-make-babies-would-be-irresponsible-says-dna-summit-statement

science.howstuffworks.com/human-experimentation1.htm

www.nbcnews.com/id/41811750/ns/health-health_care/t/ugly-past-us-human-experiments-uncovered/#.Vsa1jJMrKi5 

www.scientificamerican.com/article/lost-species-revived-from-dna-and-restored-to-nature/ 

ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/04/125-species-revival/zimmer-text 

www.wired.com/2013/03/passenger-pigeon-de-extinction/ 

 

Antimatter and antimatter weapons:

www.physics.org/article-questions.asp?id=105 

angelsanddemons.web.cern.ch/ 

www.livescience.com/32387-what-is-antimatter.html

www.exploratorium.edu/origins/cern/ideas/antimatter.html 

www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-antimatter-2002-01-24/ 

www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/april-2015/ten-things-you-might-not-know-about-antimatter 

www.wired.com/2009/05/angels-demons-antimatter-bombs-for-real/ 

www.livescience.com/33348-antimatter-destroy-world.html 

 

 

Androids/robotics/artificial intelligence:

time.com/3641921/dont-fear-artificial-intelligence/ 

www.businessinsider.com/ray-kurzweil-thinks-well-have-human-level-ai-by-2029-2014-12

www.iep.utm.edu/chineser/ 

plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/ 

www.mind.ilstu.edu/curriculum/searle_chinese_room/searle_chinese_room.php 

www.technologyreview.com/s/600819/the-missing-link-of-artificial-intelligence/

ai100.stanford.edu/ 

www.wired.com/2014/10/future-of-artificial-intelligence/ 

www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/11/noam-chomsky-on-where-artificial-intelligence-went-wrong/261637/ 

www.technologyreview.com/s/544556/what-will-it-take-to-build-a-virtuous-ai/ 

www.aaai.org/home.html 

www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/22/robots-google-ray-kurzweil-terminator-singularity-artificial-intelligence 

spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/033010-hubo-ii-humanoid-robot-is-lighter-and-faster 

 

Technology/computer viruses/hackers/quantum computing:

www.bbc.com/future/tags/hacking 

www.newsweek.com/future-hacking-your-planes-trains-and-automobiles-arent-safe-350865 

www.forbes.com/sites/theopriestley/2015/12/22/why-hacking-is-an-integral-part-of-the-future-of-the-internet/#65abb54d2650 

www.physics.org/article-questions.asp?id=106 

computer.howstuffworks.com/quantum-computer.htm 

www.physics.org/featuredetail.asp?id=65 

techcrunch.com/2015/12/18/a-turning-point-for-quantum-computing/ 

www.extremetech.com/extreme/215296-did-googles-quantum-computer-just-get-the-biggest-processor-upgrade-in-history 

www.technologyreview.com/s/418778/will-quantum-money-breed-quantum-crime/ 

 

Nanotechnology:

www.nano.gov/nanotech-101/what/definition 

www.theguardian.com/science/nanotechnology 

iopscience.iop.org/0957-4484 

foundry.lbl.gov/ 

 

Virtual reality:

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/10/virtual-reality-gets-real/403225/

discovermagazine.com/2013/dec/09-do-we-live-in-the-matrix 

www.space.com/30124-is-our-universe-a-fake.html

www.cnet.com/news/are-we-in-the-matrix-science-looks-for-signs-were-not-real/ 

www.wired.com/2014/05/oculus-rift-4/ 

www.theguardian.com/technology/virtual-reality 

www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/magazine/virtual-reality-fails-its-way-to-success.html?_r=0 

www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/02/the-good-and-the-bad-of-escaping-to-virtual-reality/385134/ 

www.wired.com/2015/01/microsoft-hands-on/