He’s a mad scientist, a stock character in countless books and films. But lurking behind the trope’s ubiquity in horror and sci-fi, there’s a revealing glimpse of how our society views science, and ...

JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. — Next year, the U.S. Army Mad Scientist Initiative will continue in their efforts to explore the operational environment and collaborate and form partnerships ...

Being a scientist is hard work, but being a mad scientist is even harder. There are so many additional dangers, and you can rarely even recognize them, because, you know, you’re mad and all.

Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, Calif., hosted a mad scientist-themed party last Saturday entitled “Mudd Goes Madd.” The name and theme was a play on the college’s primary focus as a ...

Surgical robots are trusted with human lives. But still, as the boundaries of human knowledge are continually pushed, the trope of the mad scientist endures. What is it about the character that ...

U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, along with experts from academia and industry, will explore the future of the Army during the Mad Scientist Conference Oct. 27 and 28 at Fort Leavenworth ...

So it shouldn’t be any wonder that the mad scientist has fascinated us as a society for over 200 years. Although the archetype has certainly evolved over time, it remains as prevalent as ever today.

The mad scientist is one of the standard archetypes of modern popular culture. Widespread in the pulps of the 1920s and 1930s, its modern inception dates back to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818).