Mera’s Hair is a Lie in Aquaman – Kinda. Color + Water = Science!
There's a problem with Mera’s hair in Aquaman. Okay, okay, Ariel from The Little Mermaid has the problem too, but let’s just talk about Mera today. Classically, Aquaman’s love interest, Mera, is a redhead. The thing is though, she’s not. Or wouldn’t be, at least...
Dropping Diamonds From the Sky: The Wild Storm’s Kinetic Bombardment
For being telling such a technologically advanced story, in DC’s The Wild Storm, the characters occasionally like to go very old school. In this case, it was an example of “when someone bothers you, drop something on them.” Something that won’t break. From very high...
Black Bolt: The Inhumans’ King and Propulsion System
Marvel’s Death of the Inhumans #1 is significant for many things, most of which we’re not going to spoil here. But perhaps the most science-y thing that we can discuss is something right near the end, which isn’t one of the major, major revelations. Oh, and by the...
Flash and Null: What Happens When Gravity is Shut Off?
Falling down is tough, but what about falling up? Or just having gravity disappear in a flash? In the hunt for the 12 “bus-metas” on the most recent season of The Flash, the series got a chance to introduce metahumans with new and different powers - all of whom bit it...
You Too Can Physics! A 65 Foot Ant-Man Should Weigh How Much?
So - that new Ant-Man and the Wasp trailer, huh? Particularly, that part where Scott (Ant-Man) Lang brags to Bill Foster (the former Goliath) that the largest he’d ever grown was 65 feet to Foster’s 21. Hope (Evangeline Lilly) van Dyne shuts the men down in an...