The building of a real-life version of "Maxwell's demon" – which can turn information into useful energy – might mean that future nanomachines can be powered purely by information.
Given the daunting distances between the stars, the real-life version will almost certainly be a lot less sensational than the movies depicting alien invasions or crash-landing spaceships.
But regulators now have a real-life example of a systemic collapse with which to calibrate their new rules.
Any artist or designer who works with color knows that the best inspiration and perfect coloration can often be found in real-life objects all around us.
In short, the King's speech stands in for the real-life speech that we're all desperate to applaud.
Zoolander was the first film that the real-life couple made together: they went on to appear jointly in Dodgeball and Tropic Thunder.
It is all too simple to say that this identity is just an imaginary escape from real-life impotence.
This Australian real-life teddy bear, instead, is the best of all worlds: it is quiet, soft,
The startling implication is that the real-life voters must also have based their choice of candidate on looks, at least in part.
In August, a woman was charged in Delaware with plotting the real-life abduction of a boyfriend she met through "Second life," another virtual interactive world.
He found that "movie psychiatry bears almost no resemblance to real-life psychiatry."
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