As AI and autonomous warfare advance, our future mirrors a collision of Minority Report, Star Wars, The Fifth Element, and Idiocracy—demanding innovation with safeguards and clear global engagement.

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What does an ideal computer science building at Stanford look like? For Benji Welner ’27, it looks a lot like the newest addition to Stanford’s campus — the almost finished Computing and Data Science ...

Science fiction, especially space operas, isn't what it used to be. Thankfully, Apple TV has proven itself an expert in the ...

Fire and ice, high and low, near and far, fantasy and science fiction. The following pairs might all appear to be opposites, but the last of those are not as incomparable as you might think. Yes, the ...