Elon Musk’s Starlink could take wonders of night sky away from us

Alarm raised that sky could be overrun with hundreds of thousands of tiny satellites

The beauty of a good bookshop – bookworms have their say

Rick O’Shea, Emer McLysaght and others on their favourite bookshops as children and adults

Could you learn to predict the future? – and why you might want to

We didn’t see online shopping or streaming services coming, what else are we failing to predict?

How the Mother of All Demos portrayed the power of possibilities

Net Results: Five decades after Douglas Englebart clicked the first mouse, it is still a gobsmacking thing of wonder

‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’: 40 years on

Douglas Adams’s novel is still a hilarious map to life’s terrain

Is ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ the most ground-breaking film ever?

As Kubrick’s monolithic movie celebrates 50 years, special effects gurus and film-makers consider its legacy

iPhone at 10 – Design genius that brought us under Steve Jobs’s spell

Apple’s mysterious blank slate was technology at its best – indistinguishable from magic

Stranger than Science Fiction – An Irishman’s Diary about Philip K Dick, Arthur C Clarke, and Flann O’Brien

The Geopolitics of Deep Oceans review: fathoming the new frontier

John Hannigan’s highly readable survey of mankind and the oceans tackles deep-sea mining, superpower rivalries, global warming and popular culture

Jem and the Holograms review: truly outrageous that this even got made

Juliette Lewis and Molly Ringwald (we feel your pain) turn up as the elder generation in this horrendous reboot of a 1980s cartoon

Unthinkable: Are scientists wrong to dismiss astrology?

Philosopher (and Capricorn) Martin Cohen says star signs deserve a serious look

It’s Back to the Future day: time for a reality check?

From fingerprint technology to flying cars, just how accurate were the trilogy of films' predictions?

Culture shock: The best artistic stories that science has to tell

Welcome Disturbances, an exhibition of work from the UCD Science: Artists in Residence project explores the topic

Reaching for the stars in Australia

Astronomer Alan Duffy has found amazing star-gazing opportunities Down Under