Animated sci-fi has come a long way. The subgenre became popular in the 1960s, thanks to shows like Astro Boy, about a ...

Winner of this year’s Academy Award for best animated feature, Flow is the story of life on a post-apocalyptic world, where ...

The planetary scientist also shared another animation showing how the Earth and its Moon both orbit their barycentre. Written ...

A clinical trial is underway to see if suspended animation, in which the body is cooled to 10–15 °Celsius, could slow patients’ decline and give doctors time to operate. A series of rodent experiments ...

Imagine throwing a baseball. Easy, right? Maybe you've already done it a few times. Now imagine throwing a baseball on the moon. Maybe you've seen enough videos of astronauts bouncing around up ...

No chain reaction, no cell death. The patient lives. Watch more on how a scientist suspends animation » 'Cheating Death' Hear about the medical miracles that are saving lives in the face of death ...

James O'Donoghue, a planetary scientist at the Japanese space agency (JAXA) and formerly at NASA, recently ran into this problem. He created a series of animations that explore the difficulty of ...