Where's the Science?

I have enjoyed science fiction over the years, but have seen the genre become more involved with fantasy as time has passed. Nothing wrong with that. It's compelling, interesting, entertaining -- but often contains more of kings and queens, princes and princesses, vying for power and interfamilial conflict than it is a reflection on science as a root value. Having an Arthurian legend work itself out on the third moon of a planet of a star in the Andromeda Galaxy is good storytelling...but the connection to Earth/Terra science is lost. Our own current scientific advances are so interesting, fascinating and enthralling that I would hope we could create stories around such information that could still excite readers. (Anyone read about Nigerosaurus this week, the latest dinosaur find that alters theories of how some herbivorous dinosaurs fed?) My hope is that we can create stories of intense action in the PlanetCare Discoveries which incorporate the latest findings in geology, archeology, astronomy, physics, biology and the other fields of research,that the reader might be intrigued to do research in those fields herself/himself. So I see action science fiction as a field where current Earth science provides the background for adventures that will not only grip readers but urge them to go behind the stories to adventures of their own.