A large, multi-lab replication study has found no evidence to validate one of psychology’s textbook findings: the idea that people find cartoons funnier if they are surreptitiously induced to smile.

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Heliora, a superhero with a solar-powered suit, won first prize in the 2018 Generation Nano comic competition. The contest, sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the National Nanotechnology ...

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Patricia Fara, a historian of science at the University of Cambridge, UK, has written for decades about subjects from Isaac Newton to the women who worked as researchers during the First World War.

But once the sun sets, he works as a cartoonist, drawing and publishing scientific cartoons on his website Biocomicals. Uzun takes the experiences he gains from time in the laboratory and classroom to ...