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 ...

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.

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 ...

An animation shared on YouTube does a great job of visualizing the ocean's depth in multiple places, bringing it all into perspective.

Adding a '3D print' button to animation software Date: July 31, 2012 Source: Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Summary: Watch out, Barbie: omnivorous beasts are assembling in a 3D ...

Study: PowerPoint animations are comprehension killers We've all sat through mind-numbing PowerPoint presentations, but presentation … ...

"Animationland," an interactive exhibit that breaks down the art and science of animation, is open at the Springfield Science Muesum through May 5. ( Photo courtesy Springfield Museums ...

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.

GPS data has been used to make a 3-D animation of the shaking of the massive 9.0 Japan earthquake that could help visualize earthquake and improve tsunami warnings and forecasts of aftershocks.

It may be possible to put astronauts in suspended animation during long space missions a new study on mice suggests.

Knife- and gunshot-wound victims will be placed in suspended animation as the first human trials begin on this emergency life-saving technique.