While waiting for your flight to board, you look at your phone and realize its battery is at 1 percent. You look…

The following is an excerpt from How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems, a new book from…

We’re big fans of xkcd here at Gizmodo (who isn’t?), and also of learnin’ about things, so we’re pretty excited for…

In his comic “Up Goer Five,” Randall Munroe labels a blueprint of NASA’s Saturn V Rocket using only the 1,000 most…

To be fair, though, physics has had this coming for years.

Today, we celebrated a monumental achievement in human history: For the first time, we landed an object on a comet.…

...then we really would be screwed.

Could we fly on far-away worlds, or will it forever be a tantalizing fantasy? Randall Munroe of xkcd tackled the…

XKCD's What If—that extra-special corner of the internet that answers all of our nerdiest, most absurd questions in…

This is essential information we never realized we needed to know. Which Wikipedia article titles have the proper…

XKCD's Randall Munroe is publishing a book of science explainers! What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd…

Via XKCD comes this awesome map of of the solar system's terrestrial surfaces pieced together as if it were a…

There's a common trope in vampire stories where a vampire gets drunk by drinking the blood of someone who is wasted.…

While some webcomics deliver a quick joke or the latest installment in a long-form story, many comics floating…

XKCD's Randall Munroe is turning What If? – his fantastic series of "serious scientific answers to absurd…

Here's a mesmerizing piece of data porn that is sure to keep you staring at your screen. Randall Munroe of xkcd uses …

Well this is convenient. The University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit has made its global temperature data…

Last week, the International Astronomical Union – the sanctioning body that oversees the naming of planets, among…

Here with your daily dose of infrastructure porn is XKCD's Randall Munroe, who's gone and rounded up all of North…