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How aircraft company's new patent takes a page out of science fiction. Pictured is a still of the Battle of Naboo from "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace." Lucasfilm — -- Boeing's new ...

Magnetism is a natural force, one that works at a distance. Magnets get their force from magnetic fields created by the atoms within the metal. Magnets are useful for things like turbines we use to ...

The Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) seems to be working on bringing a staple of science fiction weaponry — the force field — into reality. Unfortunately, when the AFRL talks about force fields, it doesn ...

"...a personal field ... as portrayed in many science fiction movies and comic books, that is invisible to the naked eye—that will take some doing." Reading time 5 ...