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The Science of Avengers: Doomsday: Can Universes Really Collide?
Marvel built its multiverse from four different ideas in physics. They give it alternate Earths and cosmic collisions—but not the door between them.
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I Pushed the Button. The Math Says I’ll Be Fine. But...
What Richard Matheson, probability, and actuarial science reveal about one of the greatest moral dilemmas ever written.
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There Are No* Blue Humans. There Are a Lot of Blue X-Men.
Beast has blue fur. Nightcrawler has blue skin. Humans make no blue pigment. So could X-Men ’97’s blue mutants actually exist?
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So Heat Wave Vaporized a River...
And that requires 2.6 petajoules of energy, 24 times the electrical power used by the entire world—and may accidentally create a thunderstorm. Let's…
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Star Trek’s Gorn Are Horrifying. The Science Is Worse.
The Gorn spray their eggs into living hosts. Their babies kill their siblings. They hunt in packs. The disturbing part? Earth already invented most of…
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Why Green Stars Don't Exist (And Why Supergirl Keeps Finding Them)
Supergirl sends Kara to a planet orbiting a green sun, which raises a surprisingly fascinating question: Can green stars actually exist? The answer…
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Big Bang vs. Big Bounce: The Science of Galactus' Origin
Marvel's Devourer of Worlds wasn't born from pure imagination. Lee and Kirby built his origin on one of the biggest ideas in twentieth-century…
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Why the Cat in Flow Still Looks Like a Cat
Why does the cat in Flow still look like...a cat? Dogs and cats took completely different paths into our lives. One became our greatest engineering…
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Why Backrooms Break Your Brain
The neuroscience of cognitive maps, unresolved threats, and the unsettling feeling of almost remembering a place you've never been.
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Rick and Morty's Tiny Earth Is a Tiny Death Trap
(Archive) Rick and Morty's Tiny Earth seems perfect—until physics gets involved. Calculate its gravity, density, escape velocity, and fatal flaws.
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Hulk Smash Science #2: Rock Smash Hulk
How accurate is Hulk Smash Everything #2? From the Chicxulub impact to early mammals and human evolution, we follow the science behind Hulk's…
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