Water is not only the source of life, but also the material basis of social economic development and social progress. However, water resources are scarce in China, the thirteenth largest in the...
It has become common to say "I'm depressed" when we mean "I'm sad" and therefore underestimate just how severe depression is and how harmful it can be. This viz takes a look at depression: the...
Taste is a complex 4 dimensional experience. Different parts of the tongue, mouth and nasal cavity detect different aspects of flavour, scent and texture independently, yet together form a complete...
Are the temperatures over the last few weeks normal? That’s the question the CBC News Climate Dashboard helps users answer by comparing the current forecast with historical data for around 500...
Water is ever present on Earth and vital to life as we know it. Within our solar system water can be found on other worlds and will be essential for future attempts at expansion.
This...
It is said that the eyes are the mirror to the soul. While this is arguable, it is undeniable that they mirror our genetics. Eye colour is one of the features that make each of us unique. But why...
The ABDI (Brazilian Agency for Industrial Development) and FGV (The Latin American Think Tank) conducted a series of studies to subsidize the elaboration of public policies and governmental...
Trends in sea ice thickness/volume are an important indicator of Arctic climate change. While sea ice thickness observations are sparse, here we utilize the ocean and sea ice model, PIOMAS (Zhang...
"But what about protein?" is perhaps one of the most frequently asked questions to vegetarians. The doubt arises from the simple view - surrounded by problems - that meat and eggs are the main...
As someone who has seen the damage drug abuse does to people I was inspired to create this infographic with the main purpose of displaying clarity and understanding. We often hear the names of...
With the development of science and technology, people in the future will be able to set up a lunar orbiting laboratory, and use the moon as a foothold for more distant planets. Flying to the moon...
America has a love affair with pickup trucks. For the last 40 years, the Ford F-150 has been the best selling car in America, but during that time trucks have shifted from humble workhorse vehicles...
BROMACKER project combines paleo research and science communication at the excavation site in the UNESCO Geopark Thuringia Inselsberg - Drei Gleichen, at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, at the...
Kubernetes is a rising technology in the field of DevOps.
One of the outstanding issues in operating these clusters though is the complexity that comes inherently with such a complicated...
How much of an increase in temperatures in Spain because of climate change?
I analysed the temperatures increase in 47 stations of AEMET(State Meteorological Agency in Spain). The data came...
In celebration of 100 years of bird banding, Scientific American (Jen Christiansen) commissioned me to create a visualization for the March 2021 edition.
The Bird Banding Laboratory has been...
This stunning piece of digital journalism is the result of a successful collaboration between the ABC's Tokyo bureau and the Story Lab team here in Australia.
Super Kamiokande is a giant science...
This visualisation explores the use of plastic bags in the UK. Specifically, I focus on legislation aimed at reducing plastic bag usage and what impact this has made.
The entrant has supplied an...
This work started as a hobby data exploration done in the 3d software Houdini about a single glacier (the Careser) that I have a personal connection with – I climbed the Mt Cevedale several years...
“Discrimination Is Breaking People’s Hearts” was part of a special package of articles highlighting problems and solutions in health equity. The Scientific American editorial team quickly...
Resurfacing the Past is a data-driven story that explores the naval history of World War II. Underpinning the story is a manually curated dataset of more than 15,000 sunken ships. By visualizing...
The "Biodiversity" project is based on a study by the Leopoldina Academy on the connection between species extinction and agriculture. The particular challenge was to put this extensive study into...
Cosmograph is a novel (and fastest) network graph visualization tool which can draw large networks consisting of up to 1 million nodes and several million edges in real-time. Even on a...
We are all familiar with the layout of the long-standing Periodic table, as well as the distribution of its constituent elements, but who discovered them, and when?
2019 was named the...
Plastic waste, mostly from rivers or careless dumping on land, washes into the oceans at an average rate of about nine million tons a year. The visible trash, along with heartbreaking images of its...
Online museum collections provide a treasure trove of objects to explore, and allow the public to view a much larger proportion of a museum’s collection than they could see by visiting the museum...