The 3D animation that brought to life Remy in "Ratatouille" and Woody in "Toy Story" is illustrating complex scientific concepts to tell stories of a different kind. Jennifer Bisset was a senior ...

This is a still image of the animation showing Gaia’s star-formation map in 3D. In this animation we fly around the ...

Just as artists at Disney and Pixar Animation Studios bring Mickey Mouse, Shrek and Nemo to life, life science artists are using animation to bring viruses, bacteria and even nanowires to life and ...

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. But ...

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 ...

Scientists have zapped mice and rats into a suspended-animation-like state called torpor. The state was induced by beaming ultrasound waves into a precise spot in the rodent's brains. This technique ...

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. Fluid white ...

A comparison between a healthy brain and one that belongs to someone who is brain dead. (Credit: Fusionspark Media Inc.) (Source) Each day, individuals are admitted to the emergency room with ...

So you think you could make a cartoon? “Animation,” a new exhibit at Pacific Science Center, suggests it’s a more complicated process than you might imagine but gives you all sorts of chances to try ...

Knife- and gunshot-wound victims will be placed in suspended animation as the first human trials begin on this emergency life-saving technique. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes ...

Japanese production and distribution company Toho, which has been growing its involvement in animation in recent years, is acquiring Science Saru, the Tokyo-based animation studio that most recently ...