A science fiction spaceship is a lot like a house party. When I see one, the first thing I want to know is what’s going on in the kitchen. Interior designers are the unsung heroes of sci-fi ...

Space-faring ships that turn out to be alive are nothing new in science fiction. There’s more entries ... Many of them are whale-like, with interior corridors that look like the belly of the ...

In sci-fi films, nothing raises tension quite like the good guys' spaceship getting caught in an invisible tractor beam that allows the baddies to slowly reel them in. And now scientists are ...