Data shows why the volcanic lightning storm from the Tonga eruption was unlike anything on record. Reuters used data from a ground-based global lightning detection network to visualize the...

The work takes "acupuncture" as the theme, and takes 64 kinds of diseases, 59 kinds of complications, 361 normal meridians, 52 ear points, 15 human meridians, 6 kinds of basic acupuncture methods,...

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...

In 1947, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists commissioned artist Martyl Langsdorf to create a design for their magazine’s cover, and the Doomsday Clock was born; a boldy simple depiction where...

Scientific studies have shown that bipolar mood switches can sync with the phases of the lunar cycle under certain circumstances. Since I live with bipolar, I tracked my mood for 72 days and...

As part of our light-hearted Christmas issue in 2020, we published an article investigating the toxological impacts of the ingredients of George’s Marvellous Medicine from Roald Dahl’s famous book....

The Banda Ultralarga (Ultrafast Broadband) Strategic Plan ("BUL") for Italy was announced in 2015 with a promise that by 2020, infrastructure to support broadband internet connection would reach...

Time and time again, Meta (nee Facebook) executives have promised to “do better” when it comes to content moderation. We worked with Tech Transparency Project—an initiative of non-profit,...

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...

This visualisation dive into the women who have been to space over the years. How old were they? Who has been to the moon ? lets find out !

​A color- and artful visualization of the cumulative travel time by cosmo- and astronauts from the first space mission in 1961 to 2019. ​​The distance and the size of the points encode the...

This infographic introduces the function, the history, and the key features of Svalbard Global Seed Vault. The interactive map shows the origin and amount of seeds of the top 8 genera.

The beauty and benefit of the scientific process is its iterative nature over time. Each individual discovery fits into a body of work, and firm conclusions develop only after many years and many...

Studio NAND worked with researchers from one of the largest university hospitals in Europe, Charité, and the Max PIanck Institute to tackle misinformation and misunderstanding of COVID-19...

According to the relevant literature, suicides caused by people with psychological problems tend to occur around 4am, mainly because the impulsivity of suicide is linked to the human subconscious....

This data physicalization (i.e. physical data visualization) illustrates the heat-dome-related deaths as reported to the BC Coroners Service between June/20/ 2021 and July/ 29/2021. According to...

The overall aim of the SENSES Toolkit — available under climatescenarios.org — is to make climate change scenarios more understandable, accessible, and usable. Climate change scenarios are a...

In October 1957, the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite into orbit, Sputnik I. Its batteries kept it running for three weeks. However, the longest active satellite was put into...

In this visualization, health indicators from Mexico's federal database as GDP percentage assigned to public health, public spending on health percentage of total public spending, and per capita...

This project is called Unsub Extender, a free Python-based web application to analyze Unsub data. Unsub is a collection analysis tool that many academic libraries use to analyze their journal...

In 2019, the International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health selected data visualization experts Graphicacy to overhaul their flagship vaccine data...

This infographic is the product of a graphic communications class I took last spring. I chose forest bathing as my research topic because I had read about it previously and found it to be a super...

People often talk about a dog’s behaviors as strongly associated with their breed or genetics. For example, the Golden Retriever is commonly thought to have a highly sociable, easy-to-train,...

As part of its 150th anniversary, Nature, the world’s leading science journal, collaborated with network scientists led by Albert Laszlo Barabasi at Northeastern University in Boston. The...

Guide dogs are strictly trained dogs and are a type of working dog. I try to introduce guide dogs to the people through information design so that we know how to treat them when we meet them in our...

The Nobel Prize has been awarded since 1901. How strongly are women represented? Who were the youngest and oldest winners? And where is the best place to do research? A data analysis with creative...

Epigenetics is a field of research that examines molecular changes in the genome that are influenced by external factors such as nutrition or stress. The latest research results offer great...

The visualization presents monthly global temperature anomalies between the years 1880-2021. These temperatures are based on the GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (GISTEMP v4), an estimate of...

Two Soviet steppe tortoises had already flown around the moon by the time Neil Armstrong set foot on it in 1969. Initial animal studies focused on adaptability to and logistics of travel as many...

When the world wide web was first released publicly in 1991, it was quickly adopted. As technology advanced and its benefits became clear, many people started integrating the online world into...