The use of "GIFs" has exploded in recent years. They are used for news, views and entertainment but are most commonly seen as a light-hearted medium. Now scientists are beginning to see how GIFs can ...

University of Oxford PhD student Andrew Bissette recently published a diatribe against the Internet’s favorite form of looping media, arguing that science writers should not use GIFs to explain ...

That’s right — we’re having a Gif Party! But not just any Gif Party, nope, this one is for Science. Have a gif of a favorite science experiment or perhaps a gif of a pair of cat lungs at the moment ...

Researchers at MIT are analyzing animated GIFs in an attempt to catalog what they believe to be a unique, Internet-based emotional vocabulary. An animated GIF—these days often presented in the form of ...

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Humans have always lived singularly in the present moment; the internet has only accelerated the pace that we leap from one lily pad of existence to the next. And we’ve always tried to capture that ...

The use of “GIFs” has exploded in recent years. They are used for news, views and entertainment but are most commonly seen as a light-hearted medium. Now scientists are beginning to see how GIFs can ...

The use of “GIFs” has exploded in recent years. They are used for news, views and entertainment but are most commonly seen as a light-hearted medium. Now scientists are beginning to see how GIFs can ...