NASA can send robots to Mars, no problem. But if it's ever going to put humans on the red planet, it has to figure out how to feed them over a years-long mission. So the agency has funded research for ...

Replicators can create anything by rearranging atoms, but it can’t make new matter. That’s against the laws of physics. During more prosperous eras, there were matter mixtures developed and used ...

Cooking Thanksgiving dinner is tough enough without a food replicator. Since the birth of the science fiction genre, movie-technology has inspired creative invention in the real world. So, scientists ...

Jean-Luc Picard enjoys the finer things in life as an enlightened man of the 24th century. A little flute music. A little tea that tastes like soap. Some nice wine. He’s allowed an indulgence after ...