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Could a Spider Bite Rewrite Your DNA?
Spider-Man: Brand New Day pushes Peter Parker’s arachnid biology to the breaking point. Here’s what spider venom actually puts into you.
Aug 2
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Matt Brady
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July 2026
Wolverine Doesn’t Just Heal. He Rebuilds.
Axolotls can regrow limbs. Logan can regrow himself. The difference requires far more than a healing factor.
Jul 30
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Matt Brady
4
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The Science of Avengers: Doomsday: Can Universes Really Collide?
Marvel’s multiverse brings together alternate Earths, branching timelines and colliding universes—and the real physics may be even stranger.
Jul 29
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Matt Brady
1
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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.
Jul 20
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Matt Brady
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4
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There Are No* Blue Humans. There Are a Lot of Blue X-Men.
The strange science behind Beast, Nightcrawler and the blue mutants of X-Men ’97
Jul 15
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Matt Brady
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So Heat Wave Vaporized a River...
The physics of The Flash—and why emptying a river is only the beginning of Central City's very bad day
Jul 8
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Matt Brady
3
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Star Trek’s Gorn Are Horrifying. The Science Is Worse.
The biology behind Star Trek’s intelligent, viral space dinosaurs
Jul 7
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Matt Brady
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Why Green Stars Don't Exist (And Why Supergirl Keeps Finding Them)
The real astrophysics behind Supergirl's green sun, binary star systems, and why the universe refuses to make green stars.
Jul 1
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Matt Brady
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3
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June 2026
Big Bang vs. Big Bounce: The Science of Galactus' Origin
What modern cosmology says about Marvel's most ambitious origin story.
Jun 30
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Matt Brady
3
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Why the Cat in Flow Still Looks Like a Cat
Dogs are our employees. Cats are contractors. The surprising science of why one would outlast civilization almost unchanged.
Jun 26
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Matt Brady
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Why Backrooms Break Your Brain
What happens when your brain can no longer trust space, memory, or itself.
Jun 18
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Matt Brady
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Rick and Morty's Tiny Earth Is a Tiny Death Trap
When your planet is smaller than a football field, physics gets weird.
Jun 17
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Matt Brady
3
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