The trick of attracting insects by resembling inse...  ...This is not the first time that Randall Munroe of xkcd

I was thinking about this just the other day. I de...  ...be to say nothing at all, then Randall Munroe of xkcd went and ruined it. Link

According to the 1991 movie Terminator 2: Judgemen...  ...7. Whew! Disaster averted! Actually, the webcomic xkcd set our minds at ease some time ago. Link

Typing a random word into the Google search field...  ...told them to try Google. See a larger version at xkcd . Link

Quite a few companies have regretted their decisio...  ...he suggestions for exoplanets shown in the latest xkcd panel are awesome. I Like Neil Tyson's Mustache,...

At its height in the early Twentieth Century, the...  ...never sets on it? According to Randall Munroe of xkcd , yes.The biggest daylight coverage is provided by...

The distance to the stars is often explained by ho...  .... That works in the other direction, too. Today's xkcd panel gives us another way to visualize those dis...  ...y reach those stars. You can enlarge the image at xkcd

Randall Munroe, the cartoonist behind xkcd and a profoundly brainy guy, answers bizarre phys...

When you explain complicated concepts to an extraterrestrial, or a time-traveler, or a child with no frame of reference, you must boil the idea down to its simplest elements. But sometimes doing that reveals that the con...

At Randall Munroe's What If? blog, where he researches the oddest questions from readers, he tells us what would happen to a typical airplane if it were flown on other planets and the larger moons in the solar system. Fo...