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…

A new map from XKCD’s Randal Monroe offers a glimpse into a bizarre alternate world where each country is forcibly…

Now its fourth installment, Randall Munroe’s XKCD Phone series is superb satire on the ludicrous world of smartphone…

Randall Monroe’s XKCD does a stellar job of explaining scientific concepts while also making people laugh. So, it…

Do you want to know how to go to space? But is the technical explanation way too complicated for you and all those…

Really, it’s just a mess of things you’ve managed to force to co-exist and work together that, could all come…

Most surveys are written with the intent of finding something out. The XKCD survey, written by stick-cartoonist…

Presumably someone at Google is making sure that the car knows its driver is actually a human, rather than a rock.…

Following the huge success of the XKCD Phone 1 and XKCD Phone 2, Randall Munroe has announced the XKCD Phone 3.

When was the last time you thanked the bugs in your belly? Even if the concept of a “healthy” microbiome is flawed,…

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

Will I ever find true love? How will I die? When will I get a raise? For some life’s biggest questions, the best…

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.

Between phones, tablets, laptops, media centers, smart home devices and whatever other technology is scattered…

Randall Munroe has really outdone himself with today's xkcd. The infographic shows when a certain story was…

Are you feeling old this morning? Here, allow xkcd to make you feel old.