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Which sci-fi movies predicted the future accurately?

11 July 2025

Astronomer Ed Bloomer examines how well science fiction films have predicted futures that, by now, are already part of our past
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Indiana Jones vs Lara Croft: Ranking the best fictional archaeologists

8 May 2025

From Raiders of the Lost Ark to Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, films about archaeologists have long captured the public imagination – but how accurately do these cinematic adventures reflect the real science?
The best sci-fi TV shows of all time, according to ×îÐÂÂ鶹ÊÓƵ

The best sci-fi TV shows of all time, according to ×îÐÂÂ鶹ÊÓƵ

1 January 2025

We asked our writers to pick their favourite science fiction television series. Here are the results, from Battlestar Galactica to Futurama
Foundation Season 2 is now out on Apple TV+

The best TV shows of 2023 so far – science fiction and documentaries

23 August 2023

Our TV columnist Bethan Ackerley talks about her favourite series of the year so far and the upcoming releases that she's most looking forward to
Dr Alex Hoffman is launching VIXAL-4 to investors - an AI-driven system that exploits fear in the financial markets and operates at lightning speed to make big returns. The promise is billions, the rich are ready to get richer... but this is not the day Alex and Hugo had planned. What follows is a high-octane journey through the worst 24 hours of Alex???s life - cutting across reality, memory and paranoid fantasy, forcing him to question everything he sees with his own eyes. In the pulse of Geneva???s financial district, Alex???s sanity is shaken after he is viciously attacked at his home by a man who knows all of his security codes. After more unexplained occurrences, Alex becomes convinced he???s being framed. But as secrets surface from his past, will anyone believe that he isn???t just losing his mind? Detective Leclerc (Montel), assigned to Alex???s case, struggles to work this former CERN scientist out. Hoffman???s talented artist wife, Gabby (Farzad) might just be losing patience this time, whilst Hugo???s only concern is the billion-dollar business on the line. Invention can be lonely, and in a modern world of AI, capitalism and technological breakthroughs, Dr Alex Hoffman is about to learn the hard way how destructive his creation might be???

The Fear Index review: A psychological thriller with a dash of AI

9 February 2022

When a wealthy technology entrepreneur invents an AI-driven system capable of predicting how human fear affects the world's financial markets, nothing turns out quite as he planned
Station Eleven review: An uplifting vision of a post-pandemic world

Station Eleven review: An uplifting vision of a post-pandemic world

19 January 2022

A TV adaptation of the hit 2014 novel by Emily St John Mandel shows that culture and humanity can survive even the collapse of civilisation
ADA TWIST, SCIENTIST (L to R) NICHOLAS CROVETTI as IGGY PECK, AMANDA CHRISTINE as ADA TWIST, and CANDACE KOZAK as ROSIE REVERE in episode 103 of ADA TWIST, SCIENTIST. Cr. COURTESY OF NETFLIX ?? 2021

Ada Twist, Scientist review: Brilliant children's TV for the curious

25 September 2021

Netflix's adaptation of the bestselling picture book series Ada Twist, Scientist will be loved by children and provoke a smile from even the most jaded parents
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Breaking Boundaries review: Attenborough on climate change facts

2 June 2021

Netflix documentary Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet is a deep-dive into the nine natural processes upon which all life on Earth depends, featuring David Attenborough and Johan Rockström
Gus (Christian Convery) in Sweet Tooth

Sweet Tooth Review: An eccentric mix of sci-fi and fantasy

1 June 2021

Netflix’s Sweet Tooth is a hopeful take on coping with the fall-out of a deadly pandemic, set in a world featuring human-animal hybrids
Helen Mirren

Solos review: Star-studded sci-fi that is let down by the material

21 May 2021

Solos, Amazon Prime's latest sci-fi anthology series, boasts one of the most distinguished casts ever assembled for television, including Oscar-winners Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren and Anne Hathaway

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