But the cartoon editor of The New Yorker, Bob Mankoff, has made a living making people laugh for decades. He says there are a lot of scientific theories about what makes something humorous – he ...

Creator Gary Larson often used historical humor in his classic Far Side cartoons, occasionally lampooning known events with ...

If another gravity theory is correct, "then the broader implications are enormous," astrophysicist Stacy McGaugh told ...

This issue marks the first of many parallel-world adventures in comic books and cartoons ... As with all scientific theories, including Everett's innovative foray into parallel worlds half ...

Its combination of animation and storytelling has even inspired iconic cartoons including Batman ... featured actual ...

Women may be more empathic than men, but research found no gender difference in forgiveness. Gender differences in empathy ...

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Cats are quicker than babies to associate a picture of a word with its corresponding picture, new research shows.

A popular story claims that Newton was inspired to formulate his theory of universal gravitation by the fall of an apple from a tree. Cartoons ... as the greatest scientific book ever written ...

Just before midnight on July 19, 1952, a Washington National Airport air traffic controller spotted seven unusual objects on radar—first hovering about 15 miles south-southwest of the city, later ...

Châtelet’s scientific contributions were appreciated by some, then forgotten by all. But redeeming her as a mind shouldn’t undermine her as a woman.