Maze https://xkcd.com/3280/ As a side effect of the research, mice are now the only known animals other than humans to have developed a Backrooms mythology. Explain xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3280

Main Span https://xkcd.com/3279/ Wind stress? Don't be silly. When has wind stress ever been a problem for a suspension bridge? Explain xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3279

Vera Rubin Observatory https://xkcd.com/3278/ 'Spurious signals from the kitchen' is harder for an optical telescope than a radio one, but with enough determination and creativity, I believe it's possible. Explain xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3278

Forth https://xkcd.com/3277/ I NOTATION POLISH REVERSE ❤️ Explain xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3277

Recursive Trucker's Hitch https://xkcd.com/3276/ As if the americium smoke detector incident wasn't enough, now nuclear regulators have ANOTHER reason to worry about the Boy Scouts. Explain xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3276

Calibration Nobel https://xkcd.com/3275/ We would like to once again apologize to Dr. Jones for last year's mistaken announcement. We should really have double-checked the envelope for this award in particular. Explain xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3275

Arthurian Connector https://xkcd.com/3274/ (alt-text too long for a BlueSky message, see image alt-text instead) Explain xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3274

Latitude and Longitude https://xkcd.com/3273/ NGS and IERS are complaining that they left CLEAR instructions to set the washing machine to WGS84 (G2296) instead of WGS84 (G730). Explain xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3273

Time Change https://xkcd.com/3272/ (alt-text too long for a BlueSky message, see image alt-text instead) Explain xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3272

The Princess and the Pea https://xkcd.com/3271/ Once we've fully explored this space, we can start varying the number of princesses. Explain xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3271

Toasting Marshmallows https://xkcd.com/3270/ (alt-text too long for a BlueSky message, see image alt-text instead) Explain xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3270

Airport Meeting https://xkcd.com/3269/ (alt-text too long for a BlueSky message, see image alt-text instead) Explain xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3269

Offside https://xkcd.com/3268/ The arbiter gave my knight a red card for capturing with cleats up :( Explain xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3268

Types of Tornado Alert https://xkcd.com/3267/ I hate the unearthly sound my phone makes when the weather service issues a tornado harbinger. Explain xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3267

Holes https://xkcd.com/3266/ If you're thinking 'Wait, a giant crystal cave in Mexico? What's that?' then I'm SO excited for the image search you're about to do. Explain xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3266

Asteroid Threat https://xkcd.com/3265/ Paleontologists have long worried that the dinosaurs blasted into space 66 million years ago will one day complete their orbits and fall back down. Explain xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3265

720 Ollie https://xkcd.com/3264/ This discovery was key to his demonstration of regular/goofy symmetry violation, which won him gold in the theory portion of the X Games. Explain xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3264

Baryon Asymmetry https://xkcd.com/3263/ Wait, what do you mean, 'dark matter'? It's not dark, it interacts with high-energy gamma rays ... right? Oh jeez, did I forget to make it interact? Explain xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3263

Sports Commentary https://xkcd.com/3262/ The plural of anecdote may not be data, but the singular of data is anecdote. Explain xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3262

Side Effect https://xkcd.com/3261/ Brace yourself--the chirp gets pretty weird. Explain xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3261

Messi https://xkcd.com/3260/ Commentators agree that this will probably be the last World Cup in which Messi faces serious competition. Explain xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3260

Tethys https://xkcd.com/3259/ In order to carry the necessary crafting supplies, they built the ships at 12:1 scale. Explain xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3259

Plate Flip https://xkcd.com/3258/ It's great for exfoliating your skin, bones, houses, cities, landscape, etc. Explain xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3258

Beam Pipe https://xkcd.com/3257/ 'If you keep trying to spray your collaborators with the beam when they're not looking, I'm turning off the ion source and NO one will get to play with the beam!' --Physics's mom Explain xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3257

Nostalgia Content https://xkcd.com/3256/ Gen-Z got a chunk of the Carboniferous, and now all their memes are about how pathetic and small today's dragonflies are. Explain xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3256

Planetary Science https://xkcd.com/3255/ The research was overseen by the Institutional Review Board, which is what I named my surfboard. Explain xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3255

Detector https://xkcd.com/3254/ No other experiment has a lower false negative rate. Explain xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3254

Sunbeam https://xkcd.com/3253/ While weather control is typically thought of as a superpower, the unconscious ability of astronomers and astrophotographers to summon clouds is more properly classified as a curse. Explain xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3253

Ancestral Genomes https://xkcd.com/3252/ SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH: No further research is needed as it is frankly none of our business. Explain xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3252

Time Machine Conversation https://xkcd.com/3251/ It's possible to do sea navigation without a compass, but you'll have to get some spoilers from the Polynesians. Explain xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3251