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The missing science of superheroes — in a flash!

How long does it take to write a book? A month? A year? A decade? What about a weekend, that should be just about long enough…

Here’s the plan …

• Assemble a crack team of 20 science communicators, illustrators and editors.
• Stick them in the middle of a crowded science festival from 22–23rd October.
• Given them just 36 hours to write a book describing the science that ‘must’ exist behind the scenes of superhero movies.
• Get everyone else to chip in with their superhero science questions.
• Publish!!! (thanks to the Royal Society of Chemistry)

Holy smoking keyboards!

Each chapter will explain the scientific bases of a superpower, assuming that our worlds scientific laws apply to the comic books universes.

We’ve got 15 chapters lined up covering everything from Spiderman’s diet to genetically engineering a super soldier, from the Hulk’s metabolic processes to manufacturing of super alloys like vibranium and adamantium.

But we need your help …

Is there anything you want to know about how superhero science might work? Ask us via #superheroscience on twitter, in the comments below or email superheroscienceFAQ@gmail.com. We’ll try and include an answer to your question in our FAQ chapter.

Introducing …. The Stupendous Science of Superheroes team ..

Akshat Rathi — Liberates trapped ideas

Brian Mackenwells — Uses words for everything he can think of

David Jesson — Is the breaker of things

Isabel Pires — Fast talking hypoxia geek

Kat Day — Chemist with the flask full of words

Karl Byrne — Can kill you with his brain

Louise Gentle — Knows why wombats do cube shaped poos

Mark Whiting — Controls the metallic keys to civilization

Rob Miles — Controller of the robots

Suze Kundu — Nanochemist, literally

Joanna Verran — Might save humanity from a zombie apocalypse

Paul Coxon — Draws energy from the Sun.

Matthew Crossley — Creates artificial life

Flic Heathcoate-Marcz — Hunts cyborgs

Mark Lorch — Builds nature’s robots

Andy Miah — May be a posthuman

Andy Brunning — Is the master of compound interest

Romica Spiegl-Jones — Goes on an adventure everyday

Syeda Khanum — Illustrates the solution

Leanne Marle — Will make it into print

UPDATE 1:

The League of Extraordinary Scientists did it! Over 200 pages plus 20 diagrams. Keep your eyes peeled for the published book, out sometime in the spring.

UPDATE 2, April 2017:

Sneak preview of the cover!!