The Culling Games does something rarer: it builds a cosmos and then asks what kind of moral weight a single human heart must carry when the universe is watching. Structured as a long poetic epic ...

His poetry reckoned with the immensities of reality, time, and grief, confronting a world upended by new truths about the ...

On the morning of February 2nd, a familiar scene took place. It featured a group of men in top hats and overcoats on a stage, one of them navigating a groundhog to choose one scroll or another from a ...

A s a fannish undergraduate in the late 1990s, I took a creative-writing workshop thinking I might write science fiction. I was quickly disabused of that notion. “I don’t do science fiction, and I don ...

In recent months, some of the major players in science fiction and popular culture have been taking firmer stances against generative AI. Separate decisions by San Diego Comic-Con and the Science ...

Gen Z students are arriving at college with such feeble reading skills that some are incapable of even comprehending full sentences — forcing professors to start reading to them aloud in class, ...

"What are you saying here, Marco?" the president asked the bashful secretary of state after reading his letter in front of reporters SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty President Donald Trump read aloud a ...

For years, sci-fi shows have depicted futuristic computers with shapeshifting screens that can fold or expand depending on the situation. Now, Samsung is banking on that concept to try to steer the ...

More than 50 years before ChatGPT could tell you what to cook for dinner, a 1968 science fiction film was shaping how we think about machines that talk to us. In 2001: A Space Odyssey, a Jupiter-bound ...

You’re damned if you do, damned if you don’t. With 2026 only a few days away, many are whipping out the Notes app on their phones to jot down goals for the new year. One of them may be to read more.

Scientists had a rough year in 2025. As always, experts from all disciplines arrived at some groundbreaking conclusions, a small but critical portion of which we’ve highlighted in our annual Gizmodo ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A state audit released Tuesday found 10 of Ohio's 48 teaching universities and colleges are not in alignment with requirements on teaching the Science of Reading to future educators.