This week we calm ourself with Looom’s animations, get glitchy with the GlitchCore music chopper, capture time-lapses with Moment, and more. GlitchCore takes a live audio stream, and then chops it up ...

You might think that the sky above is unchanging, at least on our human timescales, but that isn’t the case. The night sky is active and changing, and it’s visible even on scales of years. Recently, ...

A new time-lapse animation of data from NOAA's GOES-West satellite provides a good picture of why the U.S. West Coast continues to experience record rainfall. The new animation shows the movement of ...

Well, OK, not exactly. A beam of light could pass through air all day long (as long as you have a layer of air 26 billion kilometers long) and not deviate a whit. But if the density of that air ...

This time-lapse animation simulates how waves caused by the magnitude 8.2 earthquake in Chile on April 1 spread across the Pacific Ocean over 30 hours. The animation really highlights the reach of a ...

Jupiter's swirling, stormy atmosphere absolutely mesmerizes in a new time-lapse animation created by a group of amateur space photographers. To create a stunning video of the largest planet in the ...

One of the most memorable lessons my college programming instructor gave was an intro to the IF statement and For loops. It involved gaming, robotics and a hot chocolate on a cold winter day. Since ...

The map-makers at the US Geological Survey and other federal scientific agencies have never met a geographical, disaster-filled database they didn’t love. Their latest and greatest hit is called ...