Randall Munroe, the creator of the popular Internet comic xkcd, which tackles science, math, language, and other lofty subjects with humor and stick figure drawings, will soon have his work featured ...

This past November, xkcd creator Randall Munroe posted a comic explaining that a family member had become ill. Although a handful of his comics since then have alluded to illness – the frustration of ...

It's a pretty big achievement to become a published author and have your book get onto the bestsellers' list, but it's even more remarkable when you can manage to do this with a book that has not yet ...

Artwork from his book Thing Explainer will appear in Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s textbooks Artwork from his book Thing Explainer will appear in Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s textbooks is a senior ...

For most people not directly involved in the study of science, anything scientific- or technology-related can be intriguing and intimidating. Almost prohibitively so. Even for those attempting to stay ...

XKCD’s Randall Munroe is turning What If? – his fantastic series of “serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions” –into a book, to be published this September by Houghton Mifflin.