Science is serious business—until it’s not. These funny memes show that even the most brilliant scientific minds can have a little fun with their work. Whether you’re a full-on lab coat or ...

Don’t tell anyone, but we have a soft spot for brainy but hilarious humor. When you take genuinely funny content and then add ...

Starting the New Year with some chemistry—literally! As someone who’s always loved science but barely squeaked by in high school biology (mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell, and that ...

These science memes, however, are tongue-in-cheek and make a point. It’s good to poke fun at science — attaching it to popular culture will contribute to its very survival.

It’s the same phenomenon that’s driving Nazi memes to the top of fringe message boards. “Fundamentally, we’re all driven to be part of groups,” Guadagno explains.

Treating memes like genes tells us which are likely to spread The internet, of course, was barely in its infancy when Richard Dawkins, a British evolutionary biologist, coined the term "meme" back ...

Bauckhage et al. More and more of the things that set the internet on fire are of that species of charmingly moronic pairing of text and image that allows even the post-literate to feel like they ...

Memes that zoom in on a subject—whether it’s a close-up of a face or an absurd object—tend to get more engagement. People scrolling through feeds are drawn in by the immediacy of a close-up.

The Shoggoth, a character from a science fiction story, captures the essential weirdness of the A.I. moment. By Kevin Roose A few months ago, while meeting with an A.I. executive in San Francisco ...