A new analysis of adolescent TV and films on Netflix suggests that too often, it shows misleading depictions of pain, portraying pain as something arising only through a violent act or injury. Instead of trivializing the ...
Social Sciences
Mar 28, 2024
0
47
The United States' new Space Force military wing revealed Tuesday that one of its units would be named "Space Operations Command"—or "SpOC" for short, in an echo of pointy-eared "Star Trek" character Spock.
Space Exploration
Jun 30, 2020
0
3182
As a child, Liu Yang once wanted to be a bus conductor and later had her sights set on becoming a lawyer, but decades later she has travelled into space as China's first ever female astronaut.
Space Exploration
Jun 16, 2012
0
0
(Phys.org)—The hand-held scanners, or tricorders, of the Star Trek movies and television series are one step closer to reality now that a University of Missouri engineering team has invented a compact source of X-rays and ...
Plasma Physics
Jan 8, 2013
0
0
Our expectations of technology in the real world are often fed by our perception of science fiction content. This is the case for children in particular.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Dec 4, 2015
1
24
American actor Alan Alda remembers the disappointment of being 11 and asking a teacher about the flame at the end of a candle, only to be brushed off with the answer: "It's oxidation."
Other
Mar 6, 2012
2
0
The narrative of film and television series has represented LGBTQ+ people (lesbians, gays, bisexuals, trans) in various ways. It has gone from complete invisibility (where there was no representation of these groups, or they ...
Social Sciences
Mar 2, 2022
0
2
The website Megaupload.com, which was shut down by US authorities over copyright violations, is among the world's most popular filesharing and streaming websites with a reported 50 million users a day.
Internet
Jan 20, 2012
2
0
Physicists Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger developed experimental tools that helped prove quantum entanglement—a phenomenon Albert Einstein famously dismissed as "spooky action at a distance"—is real, paving ...
General Physics
Oct 4, 2022
0
41
Eight years after the first season premiered, the long-awaited winter has finally come – Game of Thrones' final season is here. The television series created by David Benioff and Daniel Brett Weiss from the books by George ...
Business
Apr 26, 2019
0
3
