AT one time or another, just about every parent has plopped a kid in front of the television to watch cartoons while Mom or Dad goes to make dinner or take care of some other household chore. A new ...

The Far Side, created by Gary Larson, is one of the most popular newspaper comics of all time, made famous by its offbeat humor and absurd depictions of everyday situations. Having a love for biology ...

This cartoon, from the Atlas of Science Literacy, Volume 2, published by Project 2061, the science-education reform initiative of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), ...

Cartoon Animator 5 is a powerful animation tool with features that are sophisticated enough for professional users, but intuitive and easy enough for new animators. Lucky Planet, a Thai animation ...

The iconic cartoon has flirted with space travel, evolution and Stephen Hawking. July 26, 2007 — -- In 1986, Dudley Herschbach, now an award-winning chemistry professor at Harvard, won the Nobel ...

Rosemary Mosco adored the the funny pages of her local newspaper as a child. Her favorite, Bloom County, featured a charismatic talking penguin named Opus with an endlessly whimsical outlook. As a ...

MIT Museum: Kismet, a robot head which was made in the 1990s. By Rama, CC BY-SA 3.0 fr MIT Museum: Kismet, a robot head which was made in the 1990s. By Rama, CC BY-SA 3.0 fr University of Sydney ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Over the centuries religion and science have been in disagreement many, many times on a wide ...

Children's cartoons, often seen as innocent films about royalty and furry animals, are "rife with on-screen death and murder," a new study finds. The significant characters in kids' animated films are ...