I'm a Nuclear Engineer with 10+ years of experience in nuclear power — from engineering ⚙️, operations ⚡, maintenance 🔧, ...

I'm a Nuclear Engineer with 10+ years of experience in nuclear power — from engineering ⚙️, operations ⚡, maintenance 🔧, ...

The NYC torture scheme was just the latest example of a “wrench attack,” where a thief employs brutal physical violence in ...

XKCD’s Randall Munroe plotted out some of these experiences on a scale from “normal” to “alarming”: If you’ve been wondering about the risk of contracting Covid-19 while performing common activities ...

This would seem to be the very opposite of "low risk, high reward." Unfortunately, we live in a world where even over-the-top xkcd cartoons... aren't really over the top.

In 2014, a famous xkcd comic strip titled Tasks depicted someone asking a developer to create an app that, when a user takes a photo, will check whether the user is in a national park (deemed easy ...

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 ...

Recently, I watched a fellow particle physicist talk about a calculation he had pushed to a new height of precision. His tool? A 1980s-era computer program called FORM. Particle physicists use some of ...

Rae Hodge was a senior editor at CNET. She led CNET's coverage of privacy and cybersecurity tools from July 2019 to January 2023. As a data-driven investigative journalist on the software and ...

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 ...