A nuclear storage pool is also called a spent fuel...  ...how dangerous is it? In the latest episode of his What If? series (previously at Neatorama), Randall Munroe collabo...  ...is hypothetical question. You may be surprised at what they learned about nuclear storage pools as they...  ...tty regular basis to...

Do you recall that old joke about NASA spending mi...  ...of space, while the Soviets used a pencil? That's what I thought of when Zach Wheeler suggested using la...  ...ience, so Randall Munroe tackled this one in his " What If?" series (previously at Neatorama). The opening sequence a...  ...ity of the idea, b...

In the latest video installment of his What If? series , Randall Munroe explains the disasters that would...  ...l Munroe explains the disasters that would follow if our earth stopped spinning on its axis. The hypot...  ...at the equator, so it would be quite disorienting if the...

Randall Munroe, best known for his webcomic xkcd,...  ...r his webcomic xkcd, received a question for his " What if?" series . The question from Hunter Freyer was " What if you ignored all the rules of car racing and had a...  ...ing around a track 200 times as fast as possib...