From lobbyists gutting science bills to Congress not knowing the Earth is round, have a sigh and a chuckle at the punchlines in these entries in the Union of Concerned Scientists anti-science cartoon ...

Rosemary Mosco adored the the funny pages of her local newspaper as a child. Her favorite, Bloom County, featured a charismatic talking penguin named Opus with an endlessly whimsical outlook. As a ...

This week, we have a jumbo dose of Tom Gauld, who has been producing weekly cartoons for New Scientist for the past few years. “I like being the funny guy in the midst of a thoughtful magazine,” he ...

Pre-Jetsons Science Fiction Comedy of Dan DeCarlo's Jetta, at Auction A decade before The Jetsons, Dan DeCarlo's Jetta was a science fiction comedy about normal life in the far future we were promised ...

The majority of material surrounding scientific topics is still quite stiff and dry—void of any humor. It’s because many believe that joking about science undermines its authority and legitimacy.

MIT Museum: Kismet, a robot head which was made in the 1990s. By Rama, CC BY-SA 3.0 fr MIT Museum: Kismet, a robot head which was made in the 1990s. By Rama, CC BY-SA 3.0 fr University of Sydney ...