“The Last Jedi” is set in large part in a green, mountainous landscape inhabited by Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) — an old, grizzled dude with flowing robes and mysterious powers. The plot involves ...

The relationship between the humanities and the sciences, including some quarters of the social sciences, has become strained, to put it mildly. Developments in cognitive neuroscience and other fields ...

The Star Wars franchise permeates modern pop culture. But does this amazing fictional universe hold water in the real one? Join host Abigail Bollenbach as she walks you through the science of Star ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Science and Star Wars is a series that explores, explains, and demonstrates parallels between the ...

Wearing her Brownie vest, Allison was visiting the science factory from Gloucester County, New Jersey, at the end of a Lancaster County sightseeing trip with members of her Girl Scout troop, her ...

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NEW YORK — How do lightsabers work? Do droids have rights? Would Kylo Ren's weapon slice off his wrists during combat? These are just some of the scientific questions that "Star Wars" and science ...

Did you miss the “science wars”? While the “culture wars” provoked endless controversy, setting vocal champions of multiculturalism against loud defenders of the old order, the corresponding ...

An interesting debate between modernists and postmodernists emerged in the 1990s called the science wars. The debate highlighted the fact that—as has been popularized at least since C. P. Snow’s ...

From light speed to hyper drives to lightsabers and autonomous robots, Star Wars was certainly way ahead of its time despite occurring a long time ago. The technologies of tomorrow were on full ...

An interesting debate between modernists and postmodernists emerged in the 1990s called the science wars. The debate highlighted the fact that—as has been popularized at least since C. P. Snow’s ...