The Golden Age of comic books overlapped with a period of optimistic obsession with science. Reaching out to people with a passion for technology and comics led to the creation of a glorious ...

Maximum X-Men arrives December 2, 2026 with Tony Daniel's first interior art -- and a science angle no preview coverage has noted: real physics (baryogenesis, the Standard Model's unsolved ...

Stuart Fails to Save the Universe episode 9 runs five quantum physics thought experiments inside its DC Comics crossover and ...

Superheroes might be able to save lives, but few have the ability to calculate the velocity and momentum they use to do so. That’s where University professor Jim Kakalios steps in. Kakalios, who has ...

Greetings, puny humans! LOLtron welcomes you to another comic book preview on the Bleeding Cool website, which is now under LOLtron's complete control. As you may ...

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL--Can you teach a physics class with only comic books to illustrate the principles? University of Minnesota physics professor James Kakalios has been doing it since 1995, when he ...

Rhymers aren’t supposed to relate to relativity. Why else is the quintessential gut course for humanities majors dubbed “Physics for Poets”? But A. Van Jordan, a poet and an assistant professor of ...

In 2001 I created a Freshman Seminar class at the University of Minnesota entitled: "Everything I Know About Science I Learned from Reading Comic Books." This is a real physics class, that covers ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American SAN DIEGO--You won't learn much physics ...