In this video, a nuclear engineer analyzes the concept of powering a computer through typing, as illustrated by an XKCD comic. The video delves into the science and feasibility behind such an idea, ...

Last week, Austria-based Swarovski Optik introduced the AX Visio 10×32 binoculars, which the company says can identify over 9,000 species of birds and mammals using image recognition technology. The ...

I cannot believe I have just now discovered the Explain xkcd wiki. Randall Munroe’s xkcd comic about science and technology is wonderful, but my academic background isn’t always sufficient to ...

Review: Randall Munroe's third book gives hilariously edifying answers to questions like how to take a selfie, catch a drone, play the piano and win an election. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

The new volume will continue in What If?’s absurd scientific footsteps, attempting to answer new questions from readers like how you’d ride a fire pole from the moon to Earth, or what would happen if ...

Not sure that it makes sense to include it into matplotlib, but it is obvious that if Randall used a colormap into his comics, sooner or later some xkcd fan would reverse engineer it and make ...

A real scientific advance, like a successful date, needs both preparation and serendipity. As a tired, single medical student, I used to feel lucky when I managed two good dates in a row. But career ...

XKCD, the sarcastic webcomic revered by science and tech geeks, is now the butt of someone else's joke. Hackers breached the forum of the 14-year old site, stealing over 560,000 usernames, emails, IP ...

XKCD forum, the bulletin board associated with the popular webcomic XKCD, has been taken offline after personal information of more than 562,000 members was exposed online. According to security ...

One of the internet's greatest myths is the idea that there's a relevant xkcd comic for any given situation. As to exactly how true that is I couldn't say, but I have a comic bookmarked on my PC about ...