Science at the movies: Prometheus and artificial intelligence
The search for the origins of humanity, meeting one’s maker, and discovering why we are here: Ridley Scott’s latest film Prometheus tackles some big themes. But arguably the most interesting one surrounds the issue of what it is to be human, raised in the form…
The science behind The Hunger Games
Clothes that burst into synthetic flames, lethal bioengineered wasps and lotions that can heal deep wounds overnight: these are just some of the technological feats that appear in hit film The Hunger Games, currently taking cinemas by storm. But what of the science behind them…
The Skin I Live In: the science of synthetic skin
With the Bafta Film Awards only a week away, I thought I’d look at one of the nominees, The Skin I Live In, and how its story about a scientist incorporating animal cells into human skin is far from being just science fiction. Without giving…