Nowadays, the term artificial intelligence is not new to anybody. “Intelligent“ devices and algorithms are everywhere – as digital assistants or chatbots, for example. The notion, that an algorithm...

"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...

What the online encyclopedia has gained in responsiveness, completeness, and user engagement, it has lost in terms of the quality of its editorial design, typography, and illustrations. This...

“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...

As a key figure in the IPCC Synthesis Report, Figure SPM1, panel c, captured global media attention and inspired many related visualizations. Figure SPM1c breaks new ground for IPCC as it ties...

This map shows where tiny, floating plants (phytoplankton) live in the ocean. Video: https://youtu.be/an2InOc_4Mw Data:...

The dashboard serves to illustrate the trends and attributes of blood donor activity in Malaysia. The availability of an ample supply of blood is of importance for the efficient functioning of the...

This piece explores recent and alarming data showing this year’s record-breaking extreme heat in Southeast Asia. April and May are typically the hottest months of the year there, as temperatures...

How does it feel to not hear? According to Xu Kaifeng, a person with near-total deafness, living in a world without sound feels like you don't exist at all. For those with healthy ears, it's hard...

Part 1 of The Bat Lands. A recent Marburg virus outbreak in Ghana highlights how the thirst for resources is driving destruction of the world’s most biodiverse areas and putting humans in...

The historic examination of Tutankhamun’s mummy inside the innermost coffin was performed over seven days in October and November of 1925, and meticulously recorded in discoverer Howard Carter’s...

Showing last month, by magnitude. Video: https://youtu.be/QL_0JXNQKqg Data: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed/v1.0/geojson.php #earthquakes #ThreeJS #WebGL #shaders #earth...

Video: https://youtu.be/SuQ6WAA-L6k Data: https://github.com/astronexus/HYG-Database #d3js #ThreeJS #gsap #maps #3D #stars #animation #maptheclouds

The work "space rocket - way to the moon" deals with the research question of how technically abstract and complex content can be made accessible with the help of targeted group-specific design...

As young researchers, we all strive to aim high in our careers. But how high may we plan? This project was born out of curiosity to see what statistics say about our chances to be published in...

This data visualization analyzes the results of the largest to date veterinary study on a deadly cat virus called Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP) and the effects of a potentially curing...

Duke Lemur Center houses several hundred lemurs, many of them endangered species. This table explores of 27 of the species of lemur that have been housed there, showing the number of males and...

"Tree of Life" portrays global life expectancy. Its central feature is a chord chart shaped like a tree, where each branch symbolizes a continent, branching further into countries. The size of each...

We used 3D modelled cylinders to represent the victims of sexual abuse in the UK's National Health Service recorded by health trusts. Working collaboratively to a tight deadline we used stark...

After 50 years of relative quiet, La Palma—one of the youngest and most volcanically active islands in the Canaries—saw a dramatic eruption in 2021. The event was one of the most dev- astating...

Imagine if policy makers and interventionalists had the ability to access and explore aggregate health information from across geographic regions at their fingertips. The Population Health OutcomEs...

Merck can trace its roots all the way back to the seventeenth century when Friedrich Jacob Merck opened up shop as an apothecary in a small city in what is today southern Germany. After the...

Nature is in crisis, and it’s only getting worse. As species vanish at a rate not seen in 10 million years, more than 1 million species are currently on the brink. Humans are driving this...

One of the societal challenges in high-income countries (HICs) is fertility decline below replacement level, driven by increasing childlessness (Zeman et al. 2018). For example, in Southern Europe...

GSK believes that innovation starts when we stop to listen. This generative data visualisation aims to start the conversation about the future of health innovation by providing an immersive and...

Toxic levels of air pollution contribute to serious health complications and premature deaths. In the UK, the legal level of air pollution (measured by PM 2.5*) is currently 20µg/m3, with...

In collaboration with Hopelab, we designed and built the imi microsite to highlight the inclusive nature of their process and how both qualitative and quantitative inputs helped create a more...

How will »prompting« change the way we experience the world? Artificial Worldviews inquired GPT-3.5 about its knowledge of the world in 1.764 prompts and mapped out the results. The advent of...

Adding comments - human readable descriptions - to code is good practice when writing code in any programming language. However, different programming languages use different symbols to indicate a...

A visualization of the spread of the novel Coronavirus Sars-CoV-2 through Europe. (September 2022) After more than two years of living with the pandemic of the new Corona virus Sars-CoV2 one...