A new study examining meme creation found that AI-generated meme captions on existing famous meme images scored higher on ...

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China's Ministry of Education has published an action plan to further promote reading among students across the nation. With ...

By conveying a scientist’s approachable side while maintaining factual accuracy, humor might help reframe complicated research subjects.

Learn how science humor can boost engagement and make scientific content more shareable and relatable to audiences.

Humor is something comedians and politicians alike have been using to connect with and captivate their audiences. However, ...

What’s a physicist's favorite food? Fission chips. Science may have earned a reputation for being dry and serious. However, ...

Glenn Shaw died on Feb. 28, 2025, in Tucson, Arizona. The atmospheric chemist was for years a scientist and professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute. He was funny and ...

Authoritative, intelligent, responsible, serious—if you were asked to describe the general figure of a scientist, you would ...

Authoritative, intelligent, responsible, serious—if you were asked to describe the general figure of a scientist, you would ...

But in all this genre mastery, comedy is perhaps the sharpest tool in his kit. Whether it’s a well-timed diversion to give the viewer a break between intense moments, like every ridiculous, ...

Principal Joe Bowman’s cheesy “joke of the day” has become popular at the small, close-knit Greenfield-Central school. While ...