[Randall Munroe] certainly understands the power of graphical representation of data. The humorous plots in his xkcd webcomic are one of the favorite parts for many readers. Their distinctive, ...

Discover what would happen if Earth suddenly rotated 90° as a nuclear engineer reacts to XKCD’s scenario! From extreme ...

In 2005, Randall Munroe – then a physics student at university in Virginia – started scanning the doodles he’d been scribbling in lectures, drawing square boxes around them and uploading them to a ...

Randall Munroe’s xkcd comic tackles a range of popular science topics with an enlightening and humorous approach. XKCD via Wikicommons For those seeking to deny the realities of climate change, a ...

In this video, a nuclear engineer analyzes the concept of powering a computer through typing, as illustrated by an XKCD comic ...

For more than a decade, Randall Munroe’s web comic xkcd came with a disclaimer attached: Warning: this comic occasionally contains strong language (which may be unsuitable for children), unusual humor ...

Today, fans of the webcomic xkcd woke up to a delightful surprise. Cartoonist Randall Munroe designed a giant world that can be explored in the comic by clicking and dragging. Why did he do it?