Captain America’s New Falcon and The Dream of Flight
Over in the current issues of Marvel’s Captain America: Sam Wilson series, things have gotten rather…anamorphic. Thanks to a run in with Dr. Karl Malus, the current Captain America (Sam Wilson, the former Falcon) has been turned into a wolf-human hybrid, nicknamed...
Wall Crawling: Spider-Man, Geckos and van der Waals Forces
So the pop culture-science side of the internet has been buzzing about a study recently published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and its implications for Spider-Man. In short, the paper (which can be read here) says that for creatures that have...
Physics 101: Invisible Woman, SHIELD and Terminal Velocity
Remember that time when the Invisible Woman was on a mission for SHIELD, and it had to do with terminal velocity? If your only exposure to Marvel’s SHEILD is the television series on ABC, then probably not, but in 2014-2015, Marvel published a SHIELD comic series that...
Super Mario World – Not of This Earth
Just because video games are unrealistic doesn't mean you can't play around with them and look at them through a scientific lens. Over at PBS Digital Studios' new channel, SpaceTime, host Gabe Perez-Giz measures height and time and then uses just a little bit of math...
Randall Munroe – Lightspeed Fastballs and Loving Math
The name may not ring a bell, but his xkcd does. Randall Munroe gave a TED Talk earlier this year that starts with a realistic look at a baseball moving at 90% the speed of light, and ends with a wonderful explanation how the love of math is a good thing. The talk...
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