That’s right — we’re having a Gif Party! But not just any Gif Party, nope, this one is for Science. Have a gif of a favorite science experiment or perhaps a gif of a pair of cat lungs at the moment ...

But 2013 was also a banner year for science—so much so that the word 'science' was Merriam-Webster's word of the year. It's appropriate, then, that we use the GIF to explore some of the coolest, ...

Researchers at MIT are analysing animated GIFs in an attempt to catalogue what they believe to be a unique, internet-based emotional vocabulary. An animated GIF-- these days often presented in the ...

Kudos to illustrator Diego Sanches for these pixel art visions of super scientists with superpowers, playable soon via Superinteressante. Science Kombat features pixel art masterpieces from Diego ...

As all lovers of science know, the natural world is extremely fascinating, but sometimes difficult to grasp. Things like videos and infographics help make these complex subject matters easier to ...

You probably know the GIF as the perfect vehicle for sharing memes and reactions. We believe the format can go further; it has real power to capture science and explain research in short, digestible ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. As a series of goopy platforms climb down a bolt in a mesmerizing GIF posted on Reddit, it almost ...

Humans have always lived singularly in the present moment; the internet has only accelerated the pace that we leap from one lily pad of existence to the next. And we’ve always tried to capture that ...

Brigitte Nerlich receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust and the ESRC. The use of “GIFs” has exploded in recent years. They are used for news, views and entertainment but are most commonly seen as ...

Magnets. How do they work? And how can we make them do amazing things like in these GIFs? Last week, this GIF entitled ‘Perfect magnets’ appeared online and became an instant sensation. It’s a miracle ...

University of Oxford PhD student Andrew Bissette recently published a diatribe against the Internet’s favorite form of looping media, arguing that science writers should not use GIFs to explain ...