Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. An aspiring chemist goes to college, realizes she’s not good at chemistry, and bombs her dissertation. She takes a class in standup comedy and decides the best ...

A scientist performs a routine during Science Riot, a show that highlights the humorous side of a variety of STEM-related topics. Science Riot, a Front Range-based nonprofit dedicated to increasing ...

The 2026 Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards celebrate the amusing antics of animals. Since 2015, the contest has shared light-hearted wildlife images captured by photographers from around the world. This ...

Science Riot, a Front Range-based nonprofit dedicated to increasing public enthusiasm for science through stand-up comedy, promises an evening of laughing and learning at the Ivywild School Auditorium ...

Actor and comedian David Epley may be based in Seattle but he has become a regular performer at Moraine Valley Community College’s Fine & Performing Arts Center in Palos Hills. The creator of Doktor ...

Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Simone Giertz started her career on YouTube building what she called “shitty robots”—deliberately flawed contraptions that made ...

The co-founder of a science communication nonprofit is bringing a standup comedy event to her hometown. Jessie Hanson was born and raised in Duluth, graduating from Duluth East High School and UMD.

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The Texas Science Festival, organized by The University of Texas at Austin’s College of Natural Sciences, takes place from February 18 through March 5, with experiences on the UT campus and around ...

Long before Robert Downey Jr. graced the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Iron Man, he bullied nerds in 1985's "Weird Science." Written and directed by John Hughes, the sci-fi comedy tells the story of ...

More specifically, the 1985 film came to life as a loose adaptation of a story featured in an EC Comics anthology released in 1951. Hughes adapted the screenplay for Weird Science from the EC Comics ...