Biology & Chemistry
In Jurassic Park, scientists use DNA preserved in this prehistoric insect trapped in amber to help recreate dinosaurs.
What is a mosquito?
In Iron Man, Tony Stark's artificial intelligence assistant is known by this five-letter name.
What is J.A.R.V.I.S.?
In The LEGO Movie, characters construct buildings and vehicles using these interlocking plastic pieces.
What are LEGO bricks?
In Mean Girls, Cady Heron is especially talented in this branch of mathematics involving rates of change, derivatives, and integrals.
What is calculus?
In Star Wars, Luke Skywalker's home planet Tatooine has this many suns.
What is two?
In Moana, the characters sail across this enormous ocean, the largest on Earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
In Pokémon, Pikachu is famous for generating attacks involving this form of energy, which also powers our phones and computers.
What is electricity?
In Breaking Bad, Walter White teaches this scientific subject before becoming involved in illegal drug manufacturing.
What is chemistry?
In The Matrix, humans unknowingly live inside a computer-generated version of reality called this.
What is the Matrix?
In Big Hero 6, Hiro creates this inflatable healthcare robot designed to help patients.
Who is Baymax?
In Squid Game, contestants face challenges involving chance and risk, making this branch of mathematics especially useful.
What is probability?
In Guardians of the Galaxy, characters travel through space, where ordinary sound waves cannot travel because of this near-empty environment.
What is a vacuum?
In Ice Age, Manny and his friends experience the colder climate associated with this extended period of widespread glaciation.
What is an ice age?
In Back to the Future, Doc Brown's DeLorean must reach this speed to activate its fictional time-travel system.
What is 88 miles per hour?
In The Last of Us, the fictional outbreak is caused by a mutated version of this real-world group of fungi.
What is Cordyceps?
In Pokémon GO, digital creatures appear over real-world surroundings through this technology.
What is augmented reality (AR)?
In Star Wars, the Death Star is a fictional example of this type of massive engineered structure that orbits in space.
What is a space station?
In The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon frequently references this number, which is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter.
What is pi (π)?
In Interstellar, astronauts encounter extreme time differences near a black hole due to this Einstein-predicted effect.
What is gravitational time dilation?
In the movie Twister, scientists chase these violently rotating columns of air.
What are tornadoes?
In Ghostbusters, the team uses fictional proton packs to capture ghosts. In real science, a proton is a positively charged particle found in this part of an atom.
What is the nucleus?
In Finding Nemo, Marlin and Nemo belong to this group of fish, known for their symbiotic relationship with sea anemones.
What are clownfish?
In Star Wars, R2-D2 and C-3PO are examples of these programmable machines that can perform tasks.
What are robots?
In The Martian, Mark Watney modifies his habitat to grow potatoes, applying this engineering discipline focused on food and biological production systems.
What is agricultural engineering?
In Alice in Wonderland, the Mad Hatter's tea party features a table. The area of a rectangular tabletop is found by multiplying these two dimensions.
What are length and width?
In Thor, the superhero's enchanted hammer, which defies ordinary physics, is known by this name.
What is Mjolnir?
In Journey to the Center of the Earth, the adventurers travel beneath Earth's crust toward its interior. This hot layer lies between the crust and core.
What is the mantle?
In Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, a scientist accidentally reduces the size of his children. This scientific field focuses on manipulating matter at extremely small scales, typically between 1 and 100 nanometers.
What is nanotechnology?
In Spider-Man, Peter Parker's transformation follows a spider bite that supposedly changes this molecule carrying genetic information.
What is DNA?
In Ready Player One, players explore the OASIS using immersive headsets associated with this technology.
What is virtual reality (VR)?
In Minecraft, players can build automated doors, circuits, and machines using this fictional red material.
What is redstone?
In the movie 21, MIT students use card counting to gain an advantage in blackjack by applying probability and this branch of mathematics dealing with data and patterns.
What is statistics?
In WALL-E, the robot uses a fire extinguisher to propel himself through space, demonstrating this Newtonian principle.
What is Newton's third law of motion?
In Avatar: The Last Airbender, earthbenders manipulate rocks and minerals. The three main rock categories are igneous, sedimentary, and this third type.
What is metamorphic?
In Stranger Things, the Upside Down is portrayed as a mysterious alternate reality. In theoretical physics, this concept proposes the existence of multiple universes beyond our own.
What is the multiverse?
In Avatar, the glowing organisms of Pandora are reminiscent of this biological process in which living things produce light.
What is bioluminescence?
In Black Panther, Wakanda's advanced technology relies on this fictional metal, also found in Captain America's shield.
What is vibranium?
In Star Trek, the Enterprise's fictional warp drive is designed to overcome the travel limitations imposed by this universal speed limit.
What is the speed of light?
In Doctor Strange, the visual designs of repeating, self-similar patterns resemble these mathematical structures.
What are fractals?
In The Flash, Barry Allen's extraordinary speed would produce relativistic effects if he approached this fundamental constant.
What is the speed of light?
In San Andreas, a major earthquake strikes California near this real geological fault system.
What is the San Andreas Fault?
In Ant-Man, Hank Pym uses fictional particles to change the size of objects. In real physics, this principle states that mass and energy are equivalent and can be related by the equation E = mc².
What is mass–energy equivalence?