In 1850 nearly half of Americans worked on a farm. Today that share is less than two percent. Technological and economic development have led to a massive decrease in farmers and laborers. At the same ...

From Brad Plummer at Vox, “This is an incredible visualization of the world’s shipping routes“: About 11 billion tons of stuff gets carried around the world every year by large ships. Clothes, ...

Travel back 390 million years after the big bang to the ancient Maisie's Galaxy in this stunning 3D visualization that showcases 5000 galaxies captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. It was ...

The 2008 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge has just concluded with some pretty astonishing imagery in the winning slots. This picture, dubbed “Glass Forest,” is a scanning ...

The lines, curves, and whorls made by ocean currents in NASA's Perpetual Ocean video look like they were taken straight out of Vincent van Gogh's A Starry Night. All the pretty strokes came courtesy ...

Soon after a college student named Elliot Rodger took to the streets of Isla Vista, California, on Friday night, ending his own life and those of six others, it became clear that the gunman was on a ...

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