hard science
noun
: a science (such as chemistry, physics, or astronomy) that deals with things that can be observed and measured
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Scavengers Reign isn't either of those things—this gloriously strange hard science fiction series has a visual style drawn more from European bandes dessinées, and impresses with writing that's equal parts imaginative, impactful, and thought provoking.
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Matt Kamen, WIRED, 22 June 2024
Chinese hard science fiction would seem to face an even steeper road to readership.
—Neil McRobert, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2024
The 1964 discovery of evidence supporting the big bang theory immediately elevated cosmology from metaphysics to hard science.
—Richard Panek, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2023
Opened this past December in partnership with Alcor, a nonprofit cryonics research organization based in Scottsdale, Arizona, the International Cryonics Museum’s mission is to educate people of all walks of life about the hard science of cryonic preservation.
—Heather Mundt, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Mar. 2024
At their heart, such events are more about human psychology than hard science, and are no less fascinating for it.
—Chris Wheatley, Longreads, 18 Jan. 2024
This hard science of cryptography forms the first line of defense and the core of bitcoin security.
—Korok Ray, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
As hard science goes, neither researcher pretended this was the Manhattan Project, and indeed, any primatological team that can collect the majority of its fieldwork material in the express line at the A&P; should probably not be expecting NSF funding any time soon.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
But before Shannon, there was precious little sense of information as an idea, a measurable quantity, an object fitted out for hard science.
—Jimmy Soni, IEEE Spectrum, 12 July 2017
Matt Kamen, WIRED, 22 June 2024
Chinese hard science fiction would seem to face an even steeper road to readership.
—Neil McRobert, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2024
The 1964 discovery of evidence supporting the big bang theory immediately elevated cosmology from metaphysics to hard science.
—Richard Panek, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2023
Opened this past December in partnership with Alcor, a nonprofit cryonics research organization based in Scottsdale, Arizona, the International Cryonics Museum’s mission is to educate people of all walks of life about the hard science of cryonic preservation.
—Heather Mundt, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Mar. 2024
At their heart, such events are more about human psychology than hard science, and are no less fascinating for it.
—Chris Wheatley, Longreads, 18 Jan. 2024
This hard science of cryptography forms the first line of defense and the core of bitcoin security.
—Korok Ray, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
As hard science goes, neither researcher pretended this was the Manhattan Project, and indeed, any primatological team that can collect the majority of its fieldwork material in the express line at the A&P; should probably not be expecting NSF funding any time soon.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
But before Shannon, there was precious little sense of information as an idea, a measurable quantity, an object fitted out for hard science.
—Jimmy Soni, IEEE Spectrum, 12 July 2017
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