The scientists at the Amboseli Trust for Elephant have studied the same population of elephants since 1972. They know most individuals by name, as well as their genealogy.
We built this...
Physics can be defined simply as the study of matter and energy. But that simple definition covers an enormous range of topics.
There’s the classical physics you learned about in high school: It...
Health insurance companies buy prescription drugs the way U.S. consumers buy cars: There’s the sticker price (which few people actually pay) and there’s the negotiated price.
Measurements are at the heart of analysis, testing, and discovery. Irish mathematical physicist Lord Kelvin once said, “When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers,...
A Thought Thesaurus artwork is the visualisation of the structure of matter and how the motion within a molecular structure creates the forms we see. Feeling the energy and spin of all things...
Every day, 91 people overdose on opioids in the United States. Opioid addiction has become an epidemic. Why is it such a big problem? And what can we do to help?
In this animation, a...
This browser-based computer simulation lets the reader explore for themselves how various infectious diseases spread and what the effect of vaccination is. It demonstrates that the decision to...
For thousands of years, humans have used plants for medicinal purposes, and we still source drugs from plants today, including breakthrough treatments for cancer, malaria, neurodegenerative...
This interactive map shows that central London is blanketed in air pollution that is above legal limits. The visualisation is based on new data from King's College London, combining air pollution...
Inspired by rebuses, a narrative method dating from as early as the 15th century that uses pictures to represent words, Bloomberg journalists tackled the Space X story in a compelling new way....
This infographic was produced as an alternate outcome of my final major project at university. I decided to research how to communicate the possibilities of virtual reality and augmented reality...
When a practically unknown Russian engineer, scientist and architect, Vladimir Shukhov, built his revolutionary broadcasting tower in Moscow, little did he know about the impact his work would have...
Curative Design is a set of 20 infographics designed for medical students. Our goal was to make beautiful, accurate posters that could be used as both a decoration and a study guide for the US...
If humans were ever able to get their hands on just one asteroid, it would be a game-changer.
That’s because the value of many asteroids are measured in the quintillions of dollars, which makes...
Most people don’t think twice about the mechanics behind their internet access, or why that access still comes through billions of miles of cables and wires rather than strategically placed...
This creative information display makes visual comparisons of my own genetic sequence with that of my grandmother. This work was created with a custom Color SVG Font, “DNA Loops”, which allows a...
Swarm intelligence is a project that uses data visualization to tell a story about ants daily behavior, and how they are inspiring human beings to simulate their behavior to solve tricky problems...
Bluemix Availability Monitoring (BAM) allows effortless insight into your application's performance with a single click, providing correlations between app performance and code changes. BAM helps...
This illustrated story of the human evolution spans from the first cell to Charles Darwin in 7.27 meters with 259 beautiful flat illustrations.
In this survey, all the most relevant species are...
For the December 2016 print issue, Scientific American asked Accurat Studio to develop a data visualization centered on the research paper “A Cosmic Hunt in the Berber sky: a Phylogenetic...
A visual history of every manned Apollo flight, charting one of mankind's greatest achievements all the way from Kennedy's 'We choose to go to the Moon' speech to Armstrong's 'One Small Step' and...
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...
From the United States military to the Filipino government, data breaches can affect companies, public-sector agencies and organisations of all types. This infographic charts some of the most...
When National Geographic Channel commissioned Year Million, a 6-part docudrama looking at how humans will live a million years from now, Radical Media tapped Territory to visualise the futuristic...