The Golden Age of comic books overlapped with a period of optimistic obsession with science. Reaching out to people with a passion for technology and comics led to the creation of a glorious ...

Superheroes might be able to save lives, but few have the ability to calculate the velocity and momentum they use to do so. That’s where University professor Jim Kakalios steps in. Kakalios, who has ...

Rhymers aren’t supposed to relate to relativity. Why else is the quintessential gut course for humanities majors dubbed “Physics for Poets”? But A. Van Jordan, a poet and an assistant professor of ...

The world may believe a man can fly, but the many powers of Superman often provoke the skeptical analysis of serious scientists. Despite not disputing his strength, some sticklers point it is ...

Simon Oliver%27s %27Collider%27 revolves around physics gone wrong Main character is an agent of the Federal Bureau of Physics The first story arc revolves around a ...

OK, so he’s still a physics professor. But James Kakalios’ hobby of looking at physics in superhuman ways can get even the most ardent science hater interested in the way their world works (or perhaps ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American SAN DIEGO--You won't learn much physics ...

FoxTrot creator Bill Amend's mother and father took the bad news surprisingly well. When Amend received a physics degree at Amherst College in the mid-1980s, and then moved back into his childhood ...

In 2001 I created a Freshman Seminar class at the University of Minnesota entitled: "Everything I Know About Science I Learned from Reading Comic Books." This is a real physics class, that covers ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Back in February, Jen-Luc Piquant chatted ...