With a flourish of keystrokes, Rechavi shares scientific research and jokes about academia with a global audience through social media (his preferred platform is X). By bringing much-needed levity to ...

Whether you’re at home in a lab or out of your element, the best jokes about science will make you explode with laughter. (Maybe put on some goggles to stay safe.) With funny biology jokes ...

Humor is a science University of Colorado's Peter McGraw and his "Humor Research Lab" may have cracked the code to what makes us laugh. By Luke Brocki. Published June 8, 2013 2:00PM ...

After hearing Malow's routine at a science conference last year, Kevin Grazier invited the comedian to perform for colleagues at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena. "We found his humor ...

How humor works is a serious study for CU Boulder's Peter McGraw. As director of the Humor Research Lab, McGraw is exploring what makes a good joke, and what falls flat. His team have developed a ...

A Scientist's Sense of Humor. Scientists have an undeserved reputation for being geeky and humorless. In fact, the opposite is true. Scientists (particularly grad students) are absolutely hysterical, ...

Here are 31 science-themed jokes and puns and their explanations. Warning: Some are so cheesy, it's possible only scientists will find them amusing.

Seriously folks, scientists want to know what tickles people's funny bones, and they're looking into the brain to find out. At Stanford University, Professor Allan L. Reiss and his colleagues are ...

Science Humor: Anti-Inspirational Posters ... Still, troubleshooting all the problems that pop up at the lab bench can feel like fighting a multi-headed hydra of experiment failure, ...

A. Peter McGraw and Caleb Warren in Psychological Science, Vol. 21, No.8, pages 1141–1149;August 2010. Too Close for Comfort, or Too Far to Care? Finding Humor in Distant Tragedies and Close ...

To be funny or not to be funny: Gender differences in student perceptions of instructor humor in college science courses. PLOS ONE , 2018; 13 (8): e0201258 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0201258 Cite ...