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A view of a planet in a multi-sun system. A dialogue between science fiction and science. Credit: The Science website via DALEE

Double suns and alien worlds: the science fiction journey from Tatooine to reality

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Scientists used Bayesian network analysis to study how scientific discoveries influence science fiction literature
Few people have left such an impressive mark on the dissemination of scientific knowledge. Emanuel Lotem Photo: Shay Avidan, Wikipedia

The translator Emanuel Lotem, who founded an entire community of science fiction and popular science enthusiasts, has passed away.

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The cover of the book The Fate of Humanity - The Keeper of the Key

"The Fate of Mankind: The Keeper of the Key" - a new science fiction book

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The book's cover illustrator is veteran comic book artist Roger Bonet, who has worked with Marvel and DC Comics on a variety of well-known titles such as "Iron Man," "The Avengers," "Spider-Man," "Nightwing" and "Batman" * Excerpt from the book
A soldier in science fiction. Illustration: depositphotos.com

How governments use science fiction to predict potential threats

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There are many topics that science fiction deals with that will undoubtedly feed defense research around warfare and ways to reduce risk. While we can never fully predict the future, we can only hope that our leaders and decision makers learn the lessons hinted at in science fiction so that we can avoid the dystopia that much of science fiction depicts
The foundation series poster, based on the book series by Isaac Asimov. Photo: APPLE TV+

The galactic institution - the last barrier to barbarism in the TV series, and who will save us in reality from returning to the Middle Ages?

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Did Asimov predict humanity's collapse back into the Middle Ages where respect for knowledge is your knowledge and ignorance will take over? It turns out that the denial of science as it is expressed even more strongly justifies Asimov's fear. It turns out that conservative thinkers fantasize about returning to the Middle Ages. you have been warned
A plan for building submarines dating back to 1860 was probably the inspiration for Jules Ron, but the original idea was already put forward by Margaret (Lucas) Cavendish, in 1666. Photo: shutterstock

writing the future

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Surprisingly, it's not the science fiction writers, nor the futurists - but science fiction writers who have many times succeeded in predicting the future: flights into space, satellites, submarines, even the credit card and the iPad. And how creepy, two Israeli writers managed to predict the corona epidemic
Isaac Asimov. Illustration: shutterstock

100 years since the birth of Isaac Asimov: how he described 2019 (and a rich archive)

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The cover of the first issue of the magazine Fantasia 2000. From Wikipedia

Fantasia 2000: Soon you will be able to read all the issues online * The founders of the magazine are applying for crowdfunding

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Robots are taking over the workplace. Illustration: shutterstock

Predicting the future - an MDB writer who predicts what will happen in a world where robots do everything

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An airplane without moving parts developed in MIT laboratories. Screenshot from YouTube

Inspired by the MDB, a plane with no moving parts and a blue ionic glow

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In Dyson's 1988 collection of essays, he envisions an intelligence spreading across the entire universe and turning it into a vast cosmic mind. "What will the mind choose to do when it knows and controls the entire universe?" Illustration: pixabay.

What is a machine as smart as God would like?

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A view of a planet outside the solar system. The science fiction of the XNUMXs. Illustration: shutterstock

Why science fiction is necessary for our survival in the future

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The robot BB-8 in action. Image from the movie "The Force Awakens". Photography: David James

What will happen when robots have feelings?

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The poster of the "Hanik" series. From Wikipedia. They teach the history of medical science.

Between science and science fiction on television

Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) and Doc Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd) arrive in 2015. Screenshot from the movie "Back to the Future 2"

Even without flying cars, the real future is much more interesting than the one predicted in the movie "Back to the Future 2"

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The original Godzilla movie poster from 1954

Iggy Tsuburaya, the stunt man behind the Godzilla movies

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Actor Leonard Nimoy and his wife Susan at the opening of a film of the "Star Trek" film series in Hollywood, 3/4/2009. Photo: s_bukley / Shutterstock.com

Leonard Nimoy, Mr. Spock from "Star Trek" has died

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From the movie "The Planet of the Apes - Dawn". PR photo

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The Cosmic Calendar, a screenshot from the series "Cosmos" presented by Neil deGrasse Tyson. Photo: FOX and NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

Science deniers were angry about the second episode of the Cosmos series which dealt with evolution

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From the promo for the Cosmos series, broadcast on the Fox and National Geographic networks. From YOUTUBE

Neil deGrasse Tyson, presenter of the Cosmos series: "If Sagan were alive, he would be most surprised by the fact that we still have to argue that science is important to society."

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Advertising poster for the return of the Cosmos series.

The mythological TV series "Cosmos" is coming back - it will be screened from today, on all the stations specifically on Fox

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Isaac Asimov on a throne full of hints about his works. From Wikipedia. GNU license (link to image)

What did Asimov foresee in 1964 that would be established in the Negev in 2014?

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time traveler Illustration: shutterstock

Time travel - the cognitive paradox

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A British postal stamp issued in 1999 commemorating the series Dr. Who. Photo: Neftali / Shutterstock.com

Jubilee for the Doctor Who series - each Doctor brought with him new scientific developments

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Right: Prof. Dan Shahar and Mouz Ovadia. Conductivity and insulation

Between opposition and symmetry

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