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Popular Mechanics February 11, 2009 Erin McCarthy |
Questions for Fringe Stars: A Love Affair With Out-There Science Popular Mechanics chats with the cast of sci-fi show Fringe about how they prepare for the show, how Fringe compares to the X-Files and what to expect from the rest of the season. |
Popular Mechanics October 16, 2009 Erin McCarthy |
On Fringe, Brain-Computer Interface Chips Have Real-Life Inspiration The bottom line is that we won't have to watch our backs for sleepwalking killers, whether they've had chips implanted or not. |
Popular Mechanics October 9, 2009 Allie Townsend |
Can Worms Help Recover Memory? Fringe Fact vs Fiction In the latest episode of Fringe Agent Olivia Dunham begins to piece together her memories from a meeting in an alternate dimension. Carmela Tartaglia from San Francisco's Memory and Aging Center talks about memory recall. |
Popular Mechanics February 4, 2009 Andrew Moseman |
Could a Designer Virus Turn You Into a Monster? In this week's episode of Fringe, a virus turns a man into a monster. Here from experts how much scientific truth and fiction is in this storyline. |
Popular Mechanics January 22, 2010 Allie Townsend |
Does Fringe's Virus Eradication Plan Hold Up? Is the show's disease from the deep possible? "No," says Dr. William Blattner, director of The Institute of Human Virology. "But it does make for good TV." |
Popular Mechanics September 18, 2009 Erin McCarthy |
Fringe Season Two Premiere Misrepresents Head Trauma Neurologist Justin Sattin reveals to readers why the tv show's depiction of brain damage is misleading. |
Popular Mechanics January 28, 2009 Andrew Moseman |
Fringe Fact v. Fiction: Could Your Brain Actually Turn to Goo? In its 12th episode, Fringe brought back one of the all-time greatest, grossest sci-fi horrors: Liquefied brains. |
Popular Mechanics January 15, 2010 Allie Townsend |
Fringe Double Feature Plays With Mutation and Exorcism Tuesday's "Unearthed" was the first of the Fringe double-episode week and dove into the paranormal with a brain-dead teenager, a murder victim and a Russian invasion of the mind. |
Popular Mechanics September 24, 2008 Kate Schweitzer |
Fringe's Brain Science Flirts with Facts in 3rd Episode This week's episode of J.J. Abrams' sci-fi hit Fringe was full of situations in need of a reality check. We check in with a neurologist to debunk more of the show's junk science. |
Popular Mechanics December 3, 2008 Andrew Moseman |
Fringe Pushes Probability to the Limit as Characters Walk Through Walls Fringe loves to toe the line between science fact and fiction, but this time its tilted far over onto the fiction side. |
Popular Mechanics September 10, 2008 Kate Schweitzer |
From LSD Brain to Dead Autopilot, Fringe Premiere Skirts Reality J.J. Abrams moved beyond the sci-fi-bending universe of Lost -- the Large Hadron Collider, time travel and all -- and set out to create Fringe, the new X-Files-esque show that debuted last night on Fox. |
Popular Mechanics February 1, 2010 Allie Townsend |
Fringe's Killer Biological Weapon is Rooted in Fact Toxin expert Dale Johnson explains whether a chemical weapon can be designed to target those with specific genetic traits, as seen on the new episode of Fringe. |
Popular Mechanics February 5, 2010 Allie Townsend |
Fringe Finale Bends, But Conserves the Laws of Physics The Fringe team arrives in Manhattan just in time to discover that something has scrambled the atoms of the building along with everything and everyone inside. |
Popular Mechanics November 20, 2009 Allie Townsend |
Fringe Is on the Right Track With Code-Cracking Science In this week's episode Fringe got its facts right: language does require repetition, and cracking complex codes require some sort of key that compares them to another language. |