Spider-Man: Brand New Day turns Peter Parker’s human DNA biology against his arachnid side. Could that happen? Here’s what spider venom can actually do.

Regrowing Wolverine would require much more than fast healing. His body would have to reconstruct limbs, nerves, memories—and Logan himself.

Marvel built its multiverse from four different ideas in physics. They give it alternate Earths and cosmic collisions—but not the door between them.

Don’t spend the first day telling students what your class will eventually become. Give them an experience that makes the promise real.

What Richard Matheson, probability, and actuarial science reveal about one of the greatest moral dilemmas ever written.

A human-centered roadmap for automating everything that makes schools human. Your superintendent is your guide to the future!

Beast has blue fur. Nightcrawler has blue skin. Humans make no blue pigment. So could X-Men ’97’s blue mutants actually exist?

Students don’t trust teachers. Teachers don’t trust students. Teachers don’t trust leadership. And none of us completely trusts the machine sitting in the middle. AI has become the trust-breaker in e...

And that requires 2.6 petajoules of energy, 24 times the electrical power used by the entire world—and may accidentally create a thunderstorm. Let's talk physics!

I had strong opinions about teenagers, social media, and mental health. And then I watched a researcher complicate something I thought I understood. Getting called on my own bullshit is annoying.

Nobody becomes a martyr or a cynical teacher overnight. Schools have a hidden curriculum—for teachers. Here's how we stop it. This is about how good teachers get broken...and how we can stop it.

Supergirl sends Kara to a planet orbiting a green sun, which raises a surprisingly fascinating question: Can green stars actually exist? The answer takes us through binary star systems, phone screen...

Marvel's Devourer of Worlds wasn't born from pure imagination. Lee and Kirby built his origin on one of the biggest ideas in twentieth-century cosmology. Sixty years later, what does the evidence say?

Why does the cat in Flow still look like...a cat? Dogs and cats took completely different paths into our lives. One became our greatest engineering project. The other mostly hired itself.

The neuroscience of cognitive maps, unresolved threats, and the unsettling feeling of almost remembering a place you've never been.

(Archive) Rick and Morty's Tiny Earth seems perfect—until physics gets involved. Calculate its gravity, density, escape velocity, and fatal flaws.

This is a story about plastic Jesuses, Bad Idea Park, student creativity, and what happens when people stop worrying about looking cool.

How accurate is Hulk Smash Everything #2? From the Chicxulub impact to early mammals and human evolution, we follow the science behind Hulk's time-travel disaster.

From the Sun to Tau Ceti to Erid—and the Physics That Connects Them

From Leonardo da Vinci to Batman, the surprising science behind pop culture's favorite pose.

Public Education Doesn't Have Too Many Veteran Teachers. It Doesn't Have Enough.

Why Teachers Are So Exhausted in May — and Why Summer Doesn’t Feel Like a Break

What the Artemis II reentry reveals about super speed, plasma, and why the Flash needs the Speed Force

Some of the best teachers I know will never fit in or win awards—and that’s not an accident

You won’t love it at first. You might grow to. And it might matter more than you think.

How Astrophage Works: The Physics, Biology, and Energy Behind Project Hail Mary

How one of the most contagious viruses on Earth spreads through schools—and why we’re talking about it again.

Before he remembers his name, Ryland Grace drops a test tube and discovers that something is fundamentally wrong.

Ryan Gosling plays a man stranded on a spaceship in the new film “Project Hail Mary,” opening in theaters on March 20.

Dinosaurs, deep time, and the worst possible moment in Earth’s history to send the Hulk.

Why Failure Shouldn’t Be Final

So why do our systems interrupt and prevent it?

A crowded primary, a failed school board, and the bare minimum standard for governing public schools.

What My Students Are Telling Me — and What I Need Them to Hear Back

Where the classroom ends and pretending begins

A Classroom Reality Check No One Wants to Say Out Loud