Besides the Mars rover Curiosity, the book, released Nov. 24, diagrams the "shared space house" (International Space Station), "big tiny thing hitter" (Large Hadron Collider), "the sky at night ...

Thing Explainer's genesis was the "Up-Goer Five" comic, which had Munroe take NASA's Saturn V rocket—the launch vehicle responsible for putting astronauts on the moon—and label its parts using ...

That’s the challenge XKCD ’s Randall Munroe took on in his latest book, Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words. In it, Munroe breaks down complex concepts and technologies into simple ...

The Space Car on the Red World. Comic artist Randall Munroe describes the Curiosity Rover, in not so many words, in this excerpt from “Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words.” by Randall ...

Cartoonist and author Randall Munroe's latest book details science and technology with only a 1,000-word vocabulary. That limits its appeal, but the book is fun for those who already know the basics.

With Thing Explainer, Munroe has taken the principles of clear communication to what feels like their furthest extent, limiting himself to only the most common 1,000 words in English.

When people checked the space doctor’s numbers about how weight changes the shape of space, they found that they explained the small world’s strange path in a way that no other idea did.

In the National Air and Space Museum’s How Things Fly gallery last September, Explainer Rae Stewart helps a young visitor understand the forces acting on an aircraft in flight.