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Science-related movies up for Oscars include The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, and Wall-E. But science has been part of films as long as there has been a big screen
December 24, 2008 |
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As the new movie warps into theaters this week, we ask physicist Lawrence Krauss, author of The Physics of Star Trek, how the sci-fi franchise keeps it real, and also how it bends--or breaks--a few laws of nature
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Q&A with movement researcher E. Paul Zehr
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If the film, based on an F. Scott Fitzgerald story, isn't pretending to be realistic, it does strike at the oldest of human fantasies
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The remake of this 1951 sci-fi classic delivers a modern warning wrapped in an ancient myth
Leading the pack with 13 nominations, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button poses a curious question, indeed: Could humans reverse the aging process?
Droids, lightsabers and the Force return to theaters August 15th in Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Get the lowdown on the science behind it all.
The big screen has been beset by bugs since the beginning
M. Night Shyamalan's new film, The Happening, involves an environmental backlash, the limits of reason and the beauty of math. SciAm editor George Musser discusses the film with the director
Scott Derrickson, director of the new version of The Day the Earth Stood Still, talks about his take on the iconic sci-fi movie
The director of The Happening, M. Night Shyamalan, talks about his scientific and environmental inspirations
Green Porno—a humanized view of invertebrate love
Most movie aliens cannot reproduce successfully
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