On Monday, we asked our Twitter followers, "What's your favorite science joke?" The nerds delivered. Here are our favorites, organized by subject.
Chemistry
@PopSci I was going to tell a joke about sodium, but Na.
— Ian Haygreen (@IanHaygreen) March 24, 2014
@PopSci Argon walks into a bar, bartender says "SCRAM! We don't serve Noble gasses!" Argon doesn't react.
— bamage (@bamage02) March 24, 2014
@PopSci Two scientists walk into a bar. "I'll have an H2O," says the first. "I'll have an H2O too," says the second. The second man dies.
— Scitidbits (@Scitidbits) March 25, 2014
@PopSci Gold walks into a bar. The bartender yells "AU! Get out!"
— G'berry (@rangran) March 25, 2014
Why are chemists never able to prank their friends? They lack the element of surprise! ba dum tiss #sciencejokes @PopSci
— whateverfloatsyagoat (@ashtond14) March 25, 2014
Physics
@PopSci Being absolute zero is 0K with me
— Бeн (@benmhancock) March 24, 2014
@PopSci A neutrino walks
through a bar.
— Tim Brock (@TimBrock_DtD) March 24, 2014
@PopSci Atom 1: "I think I've lost an electron." Atom 2: "Are you sure?" Atom 1: "Yeah, I'm positive."
— Peter Slade (@peterslade) March 24, 2014
@PopSci I think I lost an electron... I better keep an ion that
— Jake Mason (@GearsAndCogs) March 24, 2014
@PopSci a photon checks into a hotel. The clerk asks if he needs help with luggage. Photon replies, "i dont have any, I'm traveling light."
— Mayahon (@mayahon) March 24, 2014
@PopSci heisenberg is pulled over. "Do you have any idea how fast you were going?" asks the policeman. H: "No. But, I know where I am."
— billy galbavy (@WilliamGalbavy) March 24, 2014
@PopSci Higgs Boson walks into a church and says "you can't have mass without me!"
— Obsolesence (@Obsolesence) March 24, 2014
@PopSci A neutron walks into a bar and asks how much for a drink, bartender says, "for you, no charge!"
— Gregory Perry (@n3rd_lyfe) March 25, 2014
Biology
@PopSci Use chromosomes in advertisements -- because, you know, sex cells.
— Baylee Nykol Pulliam (@BayleePulliam) March 24, 2014
@PopSci // *cheesy pick-up line voice* "Call me
dna Helicase... Because I can't wait to unzip your genes."
— Joe Reinhard (@Joe_Reinhard) March 24, 2014
Math
@PopSci why did the chicken cross the Möbius strip? To get to the same side!
— Cameron Forrester (@c_forrester2) March 24, 2014
@PopSci There are 10 kinds of people in this world. Those who understand binary. And those who don't
— Guadalupe Muñoz (@munoz_guadalupe) March 24, 2014
And the dorkiest science joke ever...
@PopSci Don't trust atoms... they make up everything
— Melissa (@SmellyLisa) March 24, 2014
Just thought I'd run in and check up on things. Looks like Atty is watching a "movie" and Tibby is napping before she has to check on her ....
