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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Say the name Randall Munroe to your average internet literate, and they might not recognize it. But they’ll certainly recognize the hundreds upon hundreds of stick figures he’s drawn over the 14 years ...

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?

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

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 services ...

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 ...