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 ...

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 ...

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), ...

The Journal of College Science Teaching provides a forum for the exchange of ideas on and experiences with undergraduate science courses, particularly those for nonscience majors. JCST also reports ...

This week, we have a jumbo dose of Tom Gauld, who has been producing weekly cartoons for New Scientist for the past few years. “I like being the funny guy in the midst of a thoughtful magazine,” he ...

The prime target for the $10 billion Large Hadron Collider is discovery and study of the Higgs boson — but what the heck is the Higgs, and what's it supposed to do? PHD Comics' Jorge Cham explains the ...

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 ...

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Are you funny? Can you draw? Do you like science? Do you hate it when antiscience nimrods interfere with it? Prove it. Go to Science Idol, submit your cartoon about political intereference with ...