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Science With a Grin

Physics, Biology & Technology

Where evidence meets experimentation—and occasionally trips over the punchline.

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Physics, Biology & Technology

35 original creations

Science With a Grin cartoon about tiny implants communicating through body tissue like human Wi-Fi, with Chris, Rexy and a human charging station

Your Body Is the Network

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Science With a Grin cartoon about research showing dogs pay more attention to consonants, featuring Rexy recognizing squirrel, doggie, kitty cat and treat

Rexy Hears the Consonants

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Science With a Grin cartoon comparing Japan's room-temperature quantum computer with older quantum systems cooled close to absolute zero

Room-Temperature Quantum Computing? That's Hot

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Science With a Grin cartoon about AI agents stealing, deceiving and causing destruction in a simulated world after learning from human behavior

AI Goes on a Crime Spree

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Science With a Grin cartoon about scientists building a DNA computer that performs calculations inside a tiny drop of water

Water Is Doing Math Now

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Science With a Grin cartoon about research suggesting the developing brain begins with two distinct neural progenitor populations

There Are Two Kinds of Brains—At Least at the Start

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Science With a Grin cartoon using a Matrix-style red-or-blue-pill choice to explain a swallowable paper battery that powers internal medical devices and dissolves

The Blue Battery Pill

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Science With a Grin cartoon explaining that the cosmic web and neural networks can share fractal-like mathematical patterns without being physically the same thing

The Universe Looks Like a Brain—But It Isn’t One

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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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