XKCD author and former NASA roboticist Randall Munroe has been running a blog called What If? to answer his readers' strange scientific questions with equally strange scientific answers for almost two ...

I believe in charts. A good chart can stick an important fact into your mind and keep it there. And some of the best come from Randall Munroe’s webcomic xkcd. Now you can turn any chart into an xkcd ...

I don't want to offend anyone (well, at least not in this case), but maybe I should check on Randall's description in this "What If" post. In the post, Randall describes how a Cessna would fly on ...

XKCD’s Randall Munroe is publishing a book of science explainers! What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions is due out September 2. To celebrate its imminent arrival, ...

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 ...

The forums of the XKCD webcomic created by Randall Munroe in 2005 are currently offline after being impacted by a data breach which exposed the information of 561,991 users on July 1. The compromised ...

Randall Munroe began his career in physics working with robots at NASA's Langley Research Center. He is famous, however, for engineering a creation of different kind: the iconic web comic that is xkcd ...