Adam Hadhazy

Ponder these five lunar mysteries while you're gazing at the big and beautiful supermoon this Saturday night.

Need to reign in an enemy spaceship? Fire up the tractor beam.

No sci-fi story is complete without an android, but is our tech really heading that direction?

Is time travel as simple as building a flux capacitor?

Do giant living planets like Mogo and Pandora have any place in reality?

Pop culture commonly depicts aliens as looking like humans. But is that body plan realistic?

Any good sci-fi hero uses a laser blaster, but how realistic are these weapons?

Will humans ever achieve the super speedy space travel seen in movies?

If Hollywood has it right, machines will one day kill all humans.

Is it really possible to send objects through these spacetime phenomena?

Seven candidates for a sixth basic taste.

While some can't seem to speak without telling a lie, others stand true to brutal honesty.

Nature and nurture play roles in where a person ends up on this spectrum.

A shortened preseason could make NBA players more susceptible to injuries.

If you add lots of cream and sugar to coffee you may be a supertaster.

Some people are born to be in charge.

Your handedness has a lot to do with how your brain operates.

Some of us have a knack in math while others have stellar verbal skills.

Why some people are geniuses and others eggheads boggle even the greatest minds.

A real-life "Soylent Green" would be disastrous for humans.

Does money burn a hole in your pocket? Here's why.

Here's a look at why some people are more promiscuous than others.

Only 1 percent of the population is truly considered an early bird.