Brain death’s role in the uncertainties of death

If the world is made of narratives, the best way to forecast our future is to understand which stories are influencing our thinking and technological imagination. By looking at outstanding top...

After years of detective work, it's still unclear why a Japanese doctor faked dozens of clinical trials.

This infographic shows how an army of microbes and mushrooms will make the Earth free from the fossil plastic. Infographic made for RLab, the science and technology La Repubblica's weekly

Cybersecurity content is often in service of a product. It is a young industry built on top of funding rounds, valuations and products. As an end user of cyber security solutions, it's not always...

The history of artificial intelligence development and the benefits that neuromorphic computers could bring. Infographic designed for the weekly RLab: nature, science and technology Repubblica...

Global spending on R&D reaches record high of almost US$1.7 trillion. See how much your country spends.

This infographic is about the long trail of death and destruction that “category 5” hurricanes leave every year on their path across the United States and the conterminous seas. The visualization...

Imagine having to explore, compare, and organize hundreds to thousands of small regions in one or more large images or visualizations. For example, how would you assess the typical look and...

DATA SCIENCE vs FAKE is a video web series to fight against generally accepted ideas, rumours, false informations… 20 short films of DATA about AIDS, gender and climate warming, Available on the...

This infographic tells the Cassini spacecraft journey, which after 20 years has ended at the borders of the solar system. Designed for La Repubblica Sunday cultural supplement.

For traditional Chinese medicine, many people have misconceptions that traditional Chinese medicine has no scientific basis and is very old and will be eliminated. But in today's China, traditional...

The advanced equipment and performance data of the fifth generation fighter "J-20" in China are introduced by means of information diagrams. The basic information of Chinese military aircraft in...

Timeline of the Far Future – an interactive web experience invites users to the macroscopic world that visualizes events spanning from the beginning of the 11th millennium to the furthest reaches...

The airless chasm between Earth and the moon is so vast, stretching an average of 239,200 miles wide, that it'd take a 747 jet airplane flying at top speed more than 14 days to arrive. Even...

This is visualization of arbitrary vector fields. A vector field assigns velocity and direction to every point on a plane. I drop thousands of particles on a plane and let them flow according to...

Paper collection of waste in Italy, waste production and 'consumption of paper' year by year from 1990 to 2016.

Most of the plastic waste that reaches the ocean comes from Asia.

The 2017 Nobel Prize in physics went to gravitational wave researchers. Their instruments detected black holes and neutron stars were merging together in space, forming larger...

Wall Street is entering a new era. The fraternity of bond jockeys, derivatives mavens and stock pickers who've long personified the industry are giving way to algorithms, and soon, artificial...

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have defied easy categorization since they burst into the public consciousness last year, fueling an intense debate over how they should fit into the average...

The 3D view of the solar system shows how small and precious the Earth is.

Two barrel graphs depicting CO₂ concentration of the atmosphere and the global temperature anomaly since 1958 and how they are rising with each other. Data is from GISS Surface Temperature...

This is an infographic, part of a set of infographics, designed to teach people about where their water comes from and how to protect it.

Some species are so close to extinction, that every remaining member can fit on a New York subway carriage (if they squeeze). First published early September 2018 on Mona Chalabi's Instagram...

Attic is an interactive data visualization system, that visualizes the activities in our workspace of our program at university. It has an open attic where lectures take place and students spend...

The US electricity system is often described as the world’s largest machine. It is also incredibly diverse, reflecting the policy preferences, needs and available natural resources of each state....

Illustration of 102 significant volcanic eruptions of last 18 years based on dataset by National Centers for Environmental Information (https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazard/volcano.shtml)....

The story of climate change in the United States over the last 100+ years - specifically the level by which temperatures are rising (or not) - is a story told across millions and billions of data...

Academic affinities are one of the most fundamental hidden dynamics that drive scientific development. Some affinities are actual, and consequently can be measured through classical academic...