Randall Munroe, the creator of the popular Internet comic xkcd, which tackles science, math, language, and other lofty subjects with humor and stick figure drawings, will soon have his work featured ...

“Holy crap @Fitocracy is on the latest xkcd comic!!!” co-founder Dick Talens tweeted this morning. “From now on, nobody can ever doubt @DickTalens‘s and my geek cred. @Fitocracy was just mentioned in ...

If you dig science, you’re likely already familiar with XKCD, the witty, physics-and-language filled webcomic. Now the comic’s creator, Randall Munroe, has taken to answering hypothetical questions ...

To be fair, though, physics has had this coming for years. Had this coming. What do I mean by that? Back in 2008, Randall Munroe published “Purity,” a single-panel comic that characterized sociology ...

What if you took a dip in a nuclear reactor’s storage pool, where discarded fuel is kept for years until it’s not so radioactive anymore? Could you survive? This is the kind of random question Randall ...