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** Robotics itself. Since Asimov's stories predated the development of robotics as a science, when he had characters in his stories as scientists working with robots, he used the word "Robotics" to describe it thinking the word already existed. It was in fact the first publicized use of the word, and Asimov is credited with its creation. Psychohistory is another word Asimov invented that is now a real scientific term, although its use in psychology is different to that in his stories.
* From the ''[[Anita Blake]]'' series Preternatural Biology, the study of preternatural (magic/paranormal) creatures, like dragons, yeti, vampires, what have you. It's actually portrayed fairly realistically (for instance dragons aren't magic exactly and don't breathe fire, they are giant lizards, many of them hunted to extinction, and trolls are a kind of primate closely related to humans).
* [[Gordon R. Dickson]]'s ''[[Childe Cycle]]'' - The Exoctics have a social science called ontogenetics that allow them to percieve patterns in human history and to a certain degree predict which individuals and events will be key points in the evolution of humans to a higher state of being. While the exact details are intentionally left vague, it is said to involve calculations that take into account every person in all the world, as well as how institutions and societies shape the pattern of history and human evoltion. One component of the science is the idea that certain individuals have an unusually large impact on the pattern of history. [[Gordon R. Dickson]] often uses this as something of an [[Lampshade]] and [[Justified Trope|in-universe justification]] for the fact that his [[Main Characters]] (some arguably rising to the level of [[The Chosen One]]) all play a major role in the movement of the [[Myth Arc]] toward his planned final ending, which sadly was never revealed in full because of [[Author Existence Failure]].
* [[Harry Potter]] has Herbology and Magizoology, the magical equivalents of botany and zoology.
* Stanislaw Lem's novel ''Solaris'' has "solaristics", the study of the titular planet.
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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* The [[Stargate Verse]] has [[Our Wormholes Are Different|Wormhole Physics]].
* As does [[
== [[Tabletop RPG]] ==
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