When it comes to teaching science, animation seems like a natural fit. What better way to convey how a bicycle pump works or the functions of the human respiratory system? Yet research has turned ...

But ultimately that science has to be in the service of others who then do something fascinating and creative with it, and as a consequence people may actually use your scientific results in ways ...

The 3D animation that brought to life Remy in "Ratatouille" is telling stories of a very different kind.

For a generation of students raised and nurtured at the computer keyboard, it seems like a no-brainer that computer-assisted learning would have a prominent role in the college science classroom.

A NASA animation shows how ocean currents silently snake and swirl around the planet over the course of two and a half years, and in doing so reveals how science makes art and vice versa.

"Animation," the new exhibit at Seattle's Pacific Science Center, is a fun introduction for kids and adults alike to all the steps it takes to create animated films and cartoons.

A dazzling new animation captures the life cycle of a solar flare in 3D, using vivid colors to represent the varying temperatures in the fiery eruption. The intriguing animated snapshot shows the ...

Samuel Tisherman, a surgeon at the hospital who is leading the trial, adds, "We are suspending life, but we don't like to call it suspended animation because it sounds like science fiction.