The Force Awakens

How real is the science in Star Wars?

To self-confessed geek Karen Yu, the release of the latest episode raises some very important questions: what is the Force, how do you make a lightsaber – and does the new film finally put to rest the ghost of The Phantom Menace?

University of Cambridge
· Dec 30, 2015 · 08:30 pm
Star Wars inspired me to become an astrophysicist – and I wasn't disappointed

Four decades later, I find myself surveying 13 billion years of cosmic history and mapping events that really did happen a long time ago in galaxies far, far away.

Martin Hendry, The Conversation
· Dec 26, 2015 · 06:30 am
This chart shows just how much the latest Star Wars movie has collected in its first weekend

The movie's three day collections are more than what some ministries in India spend in a whole year.

Mayank Jain
· Dec 21, 2015 · 03:13 pm