Mario, the eponymous hero of the popular video game series created in 1985, finally hit the silver screen last week. In his games, the moustached plumber navigates through various worlds, battles ...

In the grand tradition of articles that apply real-world science to pieces of pop culture that have no need for it, the good folks behind the PBS Space Time YouTube Channel have posted a video ...

Real volcanoes are marvelous, of course – but fictional ones can be rather interesting to think about too. How about Mount Doom in the Lord of the Rings books and movies? What about Death Mountain in ...

Data science is being in ways to collect information and see how life can be improved by using that information. It has now reached video games and it is telling us which Mario Kart 8 character is the ...

The origin of life on Earth has been mulled over by scientists for centuries. We now know that life’s building blocks are RNA, amino acids, and cells. But if life originated from the primordial ooze ...

Over the years, we've come to accept the fact that Mario is quite the gifted plumber. For example, he's able to leap tall buildings in a single bound... wait, no, that's someone else. But seriously, ...