Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Science fiction has always been a good conduit for telling stories with a message.View trailerIf you look back at the genre over the decades, on either the page or screen, social issues of the day ...

Strangely, whenever a good science fiction film delves into the subject of robots or artificial intelligence, the synthetic being is invariably the most compelling and human character on the screen.

The future feels so familiar. While it hasn’t happened, it’s like it is unfolding in front of us like a motion picture on a screen. Yet that last sentence makes little sense. That sentence about the ...

Robotics isn’t the future. It’s the present. So why are we still making movies about robots? Sure, Neill Blomkamp’s Chappie is no ordinary robot — he wears bling. But then again, what robot is ...