Ahead, enjoy 60 science jokes that will entertain, impress and possibly make you sound a lot smarter than you actually are. Get Reader’s Digest’s Read Up newsletter for more humor, ...

And once you find out that the mushroom was so popular in college because he was a fun-gi, the biology jokes really start to ...

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Making science funny: Brian Malow. By Nick Thomas Jan 11, 2009. Brain Malow visits the Foucault pendulum at the Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, Calif., on Friday, Nov. 21, 2008.

It really IS possible to blend humor with science and math. The American Chemical Society proves it in the video above. You may find some of the jokes funnier than others.

Do science-based jokes exclude the uninformed, or open doors to understanding a mysterious culture? A recent compilation of such in-jokes prompts commentator Tania Lombrozo to take a poke or two ...

But, beyond the simplest of jokes, he says, science is powerless in the face of humor. “As soon as you start trying to apply this to real jokes, the probabilities become totally incalculable ...

Because research can be frustrating and a bit too serious sometimes, I have the following proposal. We get together to come up with solutions that seem to work—but won’t actually work—for world ...

In-jokes are the least funny type of humor to begin with, but inside references to old science fiction are the least funny type of in-joke. Just referencing a classic science fiction movie, TV ...

Sara K. Yeo, associate professor of communication at the University of Utah, examines why it's so difficult to detect science misinformation and suggests that using humor may help combat the issue.

If science was (or is) your favorite subject in school and you love a good laugh, check out our list of 30 funniest science jokes, puns, and humor quotes ever below.