Science With a Grin

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The cosmos is enormous, mysterious and apparently staffed by comedians.

Space & Astronomy

33 field notes

Science With a Grin cartoon of Chris and Rexy beside a telescope, planning fall stargazing targets while wondering which ProCam setting fixes the universe — Fall Stargazing: Same Sky, Different Questions
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Science With a Grin cartoon about the James Webb Space Telescope finding a treasure chest of roughly 70 newborn stars in the Carina Nebula — James Webb’s Treasure Chest in Space
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Science-humor cartoon explaining how the 2017 GW170817 neutron-star collision produced gravitational waves, a gamma-ray burst and heavy elements including gold and platinum — 2017 Kilonova: The Cosmic Jewelry Factory
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Science-humor cartoon about the LUX-ZEPLIN dark-matter detector recording one intriguing particle in its signal region after years of waiting — One Weird Particle Walks Into LUX-ZEPLIN
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Science-humor cartoon celebrating the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and its wide-field studies of exoplanets, galaxies and dark matter — The Universe Gets a Wide-Angle Lens
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Science-humor cartoon about planetary protection and an astronaut named Steve accidentally contaminating a space mission with Earth microbes — We Found Life—Never Mind, That’s Steve
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Science-humor cartoon about lunar radiation hazards, solar storms and the protective equipment astronauts need on the Moon — Solar Casual
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Science-humor cartoon imagining an enormous early-universe black-hole star as a tiny red dot driving through space in a giant gas sweater — Little Red Dot
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Science-humor cartoon about microgravity slowing digestion and leaving an astronaut waiting for relief — Houston, We Have a Logjam
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Science-humor cartoon about the fastest known star racing around the Milky Way’s central black hole — Fastest Star in the Milky Way
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Science-humor cartoon about the mysterious Wow signal and its possible natural explanation — Wow! It Wasn’t Aliens
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Science-humor cartoon about a river of cosmic gas tilting planetary orbits in Orion — Orion’s Gas Strikes Again
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Science-humor cartoon explaining how galaxies may be born spinning — Galaxy Kindergarten: Cosmic Baby Spinners
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Science-humor cartoon about the Milky Way’s warped shape and a lost astronaut — Galaxy GPS Failure
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Science-humor cartoon comparing the Milky Way’s warped disk to a potato chip — The Milky Way Potato Chip
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Science-humor cartoon about the mysterious chemistry of Pluto and Titan — Pluto & Titan: Cosmic Besties
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Science-humor cartoon about NASA precisely predicting a solar eruption’s arrival — The Sun Delivers Right on Time
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Science-humor comic about NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft waking from hibernation — New Horizons Wakes Up for Adventure
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Science-humor comic about astronomers weighing the Milky Way — Galactic Check-Up
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Science-humor comic explaining the extreme power of a magnetar — The Universe’s Loud Neighbor
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Science-humor comic about a satellite reflecting sunlight into the night — Space HOA Approves New Lighting Plan
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Science-humor infographic about the history of measuring the speed of light — How We Measured Light Speed
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Science-humor cartoon about a helium-rich exoplanet confusing mission control — First Contact Confusion
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Science-humor cartoon comparing the chemical ingredients of the Milky Way to a candy store — The Milky Way Candy Store
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Science-humor infographic following Earth toward the Great Attractor and Shapley Supercluster — Cosmic Road Trip
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Science-humor infographic about the Moon gradually moving farther from Earth — The Moon’s Slow Journey Away
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Science-humor cartoon comparing an Earth rainbow with the concentric glory seen in Venus’s atmosphere — Rainbow vs. Glory
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Science-humor cartoon about the strange sulfur, ammonia and almond-like scents associated with comets — A Smell of the Cosmos
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Science-humor cartoon of a Mars rover discovering ancient nitrogen and other ingredients for life — The Martian Lunchbox
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Science-humor cartoon imagining the heliopause as the guarded wall of a private solar-system community — The Solar System Gated Estates
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Science-humor cartoon imagining NASA running a cosmic lost-and-found desk for misplaced exoplanets — Lost & Found in Space
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Science-humor cartoon comparing the tidy classroom model of the solar system with its enormous real distances — The Solar System: Actual Size May Vary
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Science-humor cartoon about NASA predicting the arrival of a coronal mass ejection with remarkable precision — The Sun's Tantrum Forecast
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Our home planet: beautiful, complicated and frequently asking for a cleanup crew.

Earth, Climate & Nature

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Science-humor cartoon comparing rare gemstones and diamonds with Chris and Rexy’s collection of obsolete parallel, coaxial and VGA cables — Rare Gems, Diamonds & the Cable Collection
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Science-humor cartoon featuring Chris and his dog Rexy while explaining why eye gnats thrive in South Georgia’s sandy Coastal Plain soil and seek moisture around eyes — South Georgia Eye Gnats
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Science-humor cartoon comparing solar and coal capacity and electricity generation in China and the United States — Solar vs. Coal: Progress With Miles to Go
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Science-humor cartoon debunking the Southern myth that scientists created lovebugs to eat mosquitoes and explaining their real ecology — Lovebugs: The Deep South’s Greatest Scientific Misunderstanding
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Science-humor infographic explaining cloud droplets, cloud color, fog and a temperature–dew-point estimate for fair-weather cumulus cloud-base height — Clouds: Nature’s Floating Weirdness
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Science-humor cartoon explaining research that found recent El Niño events are stronger in a warming climate — El Niño Found the Turbo Button
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Science-humor cartoon about controlling heat with a global thermostat — Honey, I Fixed Climate Change!
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Science-humor cartoon about invasive fire ants, geckos, bees and hornets arriving in Southwest Georgia — Southwest Georgia’s Invasive Arrivals
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Science-humor cartoon explaining why many familiar fruits are botanically berries and many berries are not — The Supreme Court of Botany
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Science-humor cartoon about cleaner drilling technology and environmental tradeoffs — Drill Smarter, Not Dirtier
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Science-humor cartoon explaining why pasteurization protects people from dangerous microbes — Why We Pasteurize Milk
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Science-humor comic explaining Cyclospora and food safety — Cyclospora: The Rough Trip of Produce
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Science-humor infographic explaining diesel exhaust fluid chemistry — Turning Pollution Into Puddles
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Science-humor comic explaining the DEF system in a diesel truck — DEF Systems: The Science Behind the Truck
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Science-humor comic contrasting cartoon quicksand scares with practical advice for escaping real quicksand — Quicksand: A Major Adulthood Disappointment
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Science-humor cartoon about Earth’s wandering magnetic poles and the history of geomagnetic reversals — The Great Pole Reversal
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Science-humor movie-poster cartoon about a volcano thought extinct becoming active again — The Long Nap Is Over
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Science-humor weather cartoon about a recurring afternoon convection storm clocking in for another shift — Hector the Convector
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Science-humor cartoon about scientists investigating mysterious round debris found on an Australian beach — Spaceballs on the Beach
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Science-humor cartoon satirizing chemtrail conspiracy theories with an imaginary atmospheric control room — Chemtrail Control Center
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Where evidence meets experimentation—and occasionally trips over the punchline.

Physics, Biology & Technology

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Science-humor cartoon explaining how charged particles can outrun light slowed inside water without exceeding the speed of light in a vacuum, producing Cherenkov radiation — Faster Than Light—With a Loophole
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Science-humor cartoon about the humanoid XPENG Iron robot entering mass production and the uneasy prospect of robots helping with household chores — The Robots Have Legs Now
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Science-humor cartoon featuring Chris and Rexy questioning an AI robot about long-term risks and whether humanity should trust the suspect — I Asked AI if AI Is Going to Kill Us
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Science-humor cartoon explaining that evidence does not show everyday aluminum exposure from antiperspirants causes Alzheimer’s disease — Aluminum, Antiperspirant & Alzheimer’s
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Science-humor cartoon about frogs whose sex development can vary with chromosomes and environmental temperature, challenging simple biological categories — Frogs Did It First
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Science-humor cartoon featuring Chris and his dog Rexy while neutrinos and muons constantly pass through the human body — You Have No Personal Space
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Science-humor cartoon about scientists considering removing one second from coordinated time as Earth’s rotation changes — Negative Leap Second?!
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Science-humor cartoon explaining how Helmholtz resonance and ultrasound can propel tiny flying and floating robots without motors — Blowing Across a Bottle—Now With Robot Propulsion
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Science-humor cartoon about the unresolved nature of human consciousness, AI consciousness and the myth that humans use only ten percent of the brain — Is AI Conscious? Ask the Toaster
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Science-humor cartoon about the theory, ritual and risk behind tapping a shaken soda can before opening it — Tap It Like You Mean It
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Science-humor cartoon about a quantum computer cooled far below the temperature of deep space and the encryption risks it may eventually pose — Starling: The Frozen Darling
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Science-humor cartoon contrasting familiar household robots with public hesitation about humanoid robots doing chores — We Trust All the Other Robots
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Science-humor cartoon about scientists mapping the human tickle response — The Ticklish Human 3000
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Science-humor courtroom cartoon about neuroscience, determinism and free will — The Trial of Free Will
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Science-humor cartoon about precession changing which constellation appears behind the Sun — Your Zodiac Sign May Have Expired
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Science-humor infographic about the United States and the metric system — Why America Never Went Metric
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Science-humor cartoon debunking numerical superstition surrounding the number 666 — The Truth About 666
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Science-humor comic about the boundary between extraordinary claims and evidence — Science Meets Resurrection in the Lab
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Science-humor comic celebrating overworked fact-checkers and evidence — Caffeine, Chaos & Claims
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Science-humor comic debunking superstitions about numbers — A Guide to Numerical Nonsense
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Science-humor cartoon showing aggressive fish becoming calmer after exposure to psilocybin — The Psilocybin Peace Tank
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Science-humor cartoon explaining how low-frequency vibrations can create eerie sensations mistaken for paranormal activity — Paranormal Activity—or Infrasound?
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Science-humor infographic about the different stages of phone battery anxiety from seventy-five percent to one percent — Battery Anxiety Personalities
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Science-humor cartoon about television news overload, attention and the brain's need for a break — News Overload vs. Your Brain
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Technology-humor cartoon about searching for the internet's secret control panel and finding only an access-denied message — No Cheat Codes, Just Coffee
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Science-humor cartoon showing logic and impulse as two uncoordinated departments inside a toddler's brain — Toddler Brain: Two Departments
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Science-humor infographic comparing standard time, daylight saving time and changing the clocks twice a year — Which Time Should Be Permanent?
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Because budgets, treaties and big discoveries can all use a sharper caption.

Science Meets Politics

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Science-and-labor satire contrasting Donald Trump’s Juneteenth complaint about non-working holidays with American workers’ lack of guaranteed paid vacation and holidays — Too Many Holidays?
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Science-policy cartoon about United States research cuts prompting scientists to seek funding and careers in Canada and Europe — America’s New Brain Drain
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Historical satire about President Grover Cleveland declaring Labor Day a federal holiday amid the violent 1894 Pullman Strike — Labor Day: A Holiday in a Hurry
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Science-humor cartoon contrasting the search for alien intelligence with automated license-plate surveillance — The Fermi-Flock Paradox
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Science-humor cartoon about recurring disagreements throughout human history — Human History: One Long Argument
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Satirical science-policy comic about research funding priorities — Another Day, Another Wasteful Priority
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Satirical science-policy comic about China’s quasi-moon mission and United States science cuts — Space Exploration vs. Science Cuts
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Science-humor comic about nuclear weapons, satellites and the Outer Space Treaty — The Cold War Just Got Colder
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Illustrated timeline tracing spirituality, organized religion, political power, secularization and scientific thought through human history — Human History: Religion, Power & Reason
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“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”

— Carl Sagan