Science fiction has always needed materials that don't exist. How else do you explain a lightsaber, power a warp drive, or make a superhero's shield indestructible? Over a century of storytelling has ...

Black Panther is that rare blockbuster that launched what it feels like a thousand think pieces. And vibranium, the fictitious alloy of alien origins that powers the Black Panther’s suit, has carved a ...

Hollywood has a history of making up science to support its plotlines. In the blockbuster movie “Black Panther,” the titular Marvel Comics superhero wears a bodysuit powered by the fictitious metal ...