Adrift is an online Citizen Science project that enables participants to visualise the environmental conditions experienced by microscopic marine microbes as they are propelled around the globe by...

Twenty-four solar terms reflect the change of seasonal climate, and keeping in good health should follow the trend. In the design of the information chart of "Twenty-four Solar Terms Health Care...

About 35% of current jobs in the UK are at high risk of computerisation over the following 20 years, according to a study by researchers at Oxford University and Deloitte. Oxford University...

From First Spark to the Personal Computer From Michael Faraday to Steve Jobs, innovators have improved upon the work of those before them—in both direct and indirect ways—to push human progress...

Sweet-to-look-at data visualizations of advertisements seen in one day. This project focuses on the execution of 3 separate data visualizations that express the same data but in very different...

Technology and our increasing demand for security have put us all under surveillance. Is privacy becoming just a memory?

Nick Bostrom has a very interesting paper called ​“Existential Risk Prevention as Global Priority.” The basic intuition is that preventing even small risks of human extinction is worthwhile if we...

The interactive scientific poster "Explore The Ocean" of the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Marine Research explains complex marine science with a multi-touch display right on board the Hapag-Lloyd...

Visual Thinking Nucleus showing dots for each tweet. The entrant has supplied multiple files for this work: [1] [2]

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.

Looking at the bunches of lab tests I had gathered since 2003, I decided to visualize my TSH lab results and other thyroid hormones. I was diagnosed with Hyperthyroidism and Graves Disease in 2003,...

On the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11’s moon landing, the National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) is setting its sights on returning to the moon, and going far beyond. This interactive...

Warmer ocean waters are undermining ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica. Glaciers are melting or cracking into pieces. Now scientists have to figure out how much the vanishing ice will make...

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...

Designing a lab for synthesis and handling of highly toxic chemicals.

The increased industrialization of farm animals has not only affected the number of animals processed every year, but has also had immense environmental effects on the air, land, and water of the...

Visual representation of the human nervous system; specifically how a variety of nerves branch out from the spinal cord. Flowers on the ends of these branches resemble the sensation that may be...

How can we measure the impact of the most important scientists on our society? Many factors can be considered: industrial applications, scientific prizes, etc. One of them is the analysis of their...

The infographic shows that, after excluding the geographical latitude factor which indicated the strongest correlation, the most significant correlation was between per capita car ownership and...

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...

As part of a classroom assignment to visually represent a data set, I took up the challenge of conceptually redesigning the Nutrition Label found on packaged food products, issued by the FDA. The...

On the 1st of July, Shanghai started enforcing its compulsory domestic waste management. The city's regulation requires people to sort trash into four categories - dry garbage, wet garbage (kitchen...

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.

The second part of “A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning” series, this installment describes a tradeoff fundamental to machine learning and artificial intelligence. Using scroll-linked...

Practicing doctors and researchers need to keep up to date with new medical research, but it can be challenging to read every paper that could be relevant. To help our time-pressured readers to get...

Artwork for BBC Science Focus. The visualization shows the space debris, categorized according to their average distance from Earth and the type of object. For each type, the number of...

Neil And Buzz was motivated by a realization: I had no idea what happened on the Apollo 11 moonwalk beyond Neil’s "one small step." How many walks were there? How long were they out there? How far...

An innovative digital art installation on the ground floor of the new Jerome L. Greene Science Center on Columbia’s Manhattanville campus invites visitors to peer inside the brain and meet the...

This multimedia activity included a 2-page infographic in the medical journal Chest, and a companion online interactive infographic. It was created to educate US-based health-care providers (HCPs)...

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...