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Interactive Brain Art
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What Does a Black Hole Really Look Like?
39-year-old drawing hints at what the Event Horizon Telescope may have just captured: the true shape of a black hole
Sleeping Beauties of Science
Scientific American graphic about slumbering research papers wakes up for an award
Visualizing Uncertain Weather
Storm prediction is tricky business. So is illustrating it
Pi in the Sky
Elegant new visualization maps the digits of pi as a star catalogue
This Is Your Brain on Poverty
Data visualizations highlight the surprising connections between income and brain structure
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Why Are so Many Babies Born around 8:00 A.M.?
STAFFData visualization engineer Zan Armstrong takes a close look at human birth patterns.
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Revisiting a Climate Data Viz Icon
STAFFThis humble 59-year-old chart reveals that atmospheric carbon dioxide levels continue to climb upward
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Illustrating Mental Illness
STAFFResearcher embraces data art as a way to diagram her own anxieties
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Unexplained Light Curves
STAFFBoyajian’s star is dimming again. This graphic shows why that’s weird.
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Interactive Brain Art
STAFFA new media installation at Columbia University renders the brain larger than life
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What Does a Black Hole Really Look Like?
STAFF39-year-old drawing hints at what the Event Horizon Telescope may have just captured: the true shape of a black hole
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Sleeping Beauties of Science
STAFFScientific American graphic about slumbering research papers wakes up for an award
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Visualizing Uncertain Weather
STAFFStorm prediction is tricky business. So is illustrating it
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Pi in the Sky
STAFFElegant new visualization maps the digits of pi as a star catalogue
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STAFFData visualizations highlight the surprising connections between income and brain structure
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