Nature speaks to theoretical physicists to explore the real theories that inspired the hit series. Warning: contains spoilers ...

Prof. An Tao from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has proposed a novel ...

Serious Star Trek fans are familiar with the term nacelles—the long, cylindrical engines that power the Starship ...

They were designed with its Noyron Large Computational Engineering Model and 3D printed with a high-temperature copper alloy.

Star Trek has influenced real-life technology before, and it's doing it again via a proposed design for a real warp speed ...

Condensed-matter physics is the study of substances in their solid state. This includes the investigation of both crystalline solids in which the atoms are positioned on a repeating three-dimensional ...