Teach your class about being as adaptable as a bat with Aesop's "The Bats and the Weasels." After listening to an audio retelling of the fable, learners fill out a KWL chart about the story, including what they learned about bats.

How do filmmakers create the visions of technology that fill science fiction films?

A discussion of how to tell a good story in science while being scientifically accurate as well. Aired Mar. 29, 2013 [36:35 min]

We talk with director Duncan Jones about his recent science fiction movie 'Moon.

More than twenty-five free audio or video files from renowned scholars which provide some in-depth literary criticism as well as the scope of literary history. Many of these are university lectures while others are interviews from...

Science Friday talks with one of the co-creators of the graphic novel Watchmen, and with a physicist who was a consultant to the feature film.

SciFri's scientist-film critics weigh in on the science behind the Hollywood techno-thriller Transcendence.

A look at the pioneering science fiction of Mark Twain?

The Science Friday book club chats about Michael Crichton's 1969 classic sci-fi thriller.

Do hidden dimensions exist in our universe -- or just in science fiction? We'll talk cosmic mysteries with physicist Lisa Randall.

Andy Weir's novel of Mars survival mixes science fact and fiction.

A look back at the fictional boy inventor and his 100 year legacy.

Ira talks with filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan about his upcoming film 'The Happening,' set to premiere next week.

Margarita Engle is an award-winning author of books for children, young adults, and adults. The daughter of an American father and Cuban mother, Engle spent her childhood summers in Cuba, where she developed a deep bond with her extended...

This collection of old radio dramas, comedies, westerns, and science fiction offers over 12,000 programs. The programs come from more than 160 series, mostly ranging from the early 1930s through the 1950s, but some from as early as 1929...