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Reality Check: Iron Man and Element 115

Welcome to Reality Check, a new weekly column on Adventures in Poor Taste that aims to address the science in...

The most renowned naturalist of all time, Charles Darwin, once wrote that “all observation must be for or against some...

In comics, superpowers are certainly a boon to thwarting evil and bringing villains to justice. But the normals still crack...

Everyone remembers their first. Mine was Infinity Gauntlet #4. My dad motioned to the book store’s spinner rack and asked,...

I was a teenager in the ’90’s, so I watched my fair share of the dating show Singled Out. After...

My degree is in geophysics, so it might seem a bit unnatural that I was asked to be a teaching...

This is a column about science. On a website dedicated to sublime storytelling and all things artsy. Out of place?...

Human beings are composite creatures. We’re mostly made of carbon, oxygen and hydrogen, stuff that’s naturally abundant on Earth, but...

I’d like to pick the scab on this one before the scar tissue totally takes hold. Sure, as time and...