Replicators can create anything by rearranging atoms, but it can’t make new matter. That’s against the laws of physics. During more prosperous eras, there were matter mixtures developed and used ...

NASA can send robots to Mars, no problem. But if it's ever going to put humans on the red planet, it has to figure out how to feed them over a years-long mission. So the agency has funded research for ...

Cooking Thanksgiving dinner is tough enough without a food replicator. Since the birth of the science fiction genre, movie-technology has inspired creative invention in the real world. So, scientists ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bones and Kirk eating strange colored food cubes in Star Trek - Paramount The replicators are perhaps the most miraculous ...

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Star Trek has inspired many real-life technological advancements, but we're still waiting for one of its best ones to arrive: replicators. The devices are sci-fi-magical in that they can create any ...

This story is part of "TV Dinner," a Salon Food series about the connection between what we watch and what we eat. One of the great narrative dilemmas for sci-fi and fantasy writers imagining wondrous ...