In a monumental set of experiments, spread out over nearly two decades, biologists removed genes two at a time to uncover the secret workings of the cell. By Veronique Greenwood.

The 2016 Good Design Award results were announced recently with awards going to over 1000 entries in several different categories. But the coveted Grand Award of Japan's most well-known design award, given to just 1 entry, was announced today.

As we move into the final stages of the US presidential election, it's worth taking a look at whom the US trades with.

It's mostly purified tap water.

[Windows Only] SpaceEngine is realistic virtual Universe in your computer. You can travel from star to star and from galaxy to galaxy, landing on any planets, moons and asteroids and explore alien landscapes, you can change the speed of time flow and observe celestial phenomena. All transitions are completely seamless, the universe has a size of billions of light-years across and contains billions of planetary systems. Procedural generation is based on real scientific knowledge, so SpaceEngine depicts the universe the way it is thought by modern science...

Animated wind, rain and temperature maps, detailed forecast for your place, data from the best weather forecast models such as GFS, ICON, GEM

The map we never knew we needed.

 Looking for an inappropriately funny, but classy-looking, map of Great Britain, the USA or Australia? You're in the right place. From the Bottoms of Britain, to the multiple Climaxes of the USA, to the many Knobs of Australia, our maps will entertain, delight and in many cases cause uncontrollable bouts of very childish giggling.        

Australia is not quite where you think it is. The continent has shifted by 4.9 feet since the last adjustment was made to GPS coordinates in 1994, reports the New York Times. All of the Earth’s continents float on tectonic plates, which glide slowly over a plastic-like layer of the upper mantle. And the plate that Australia sits on has been moving relatively fast, about 2.7 inches a year (northward and with a slight clockwise rotation). In contrast, the North American plate has been moving roughly one inch a year, though the Pacific plate moves three to four inches a year.

The maps that explain the settlers.

People from Nordic countries have a reputation for being suicidal, but the data by WHO (World Health Organization) from 2012 show that this is more of an urban legend than an actual fact (although there is a little bit of truth in it in the case of Finland). As the following map shows, if any part of Europe should have a reputation for being suicidal, it should be Eastern Europe.

Disposable income is defined as income (from employment, business, property, or social security) minus taxes and social security

All the 1960s futuro houses left in the world.

Scientists who mapped where land and water have shifted were surprised to find that Earth has gained more land than it has lost since 1985.

The role of maps in visualizing United States Census results is actually a practice that originated 150 years ago, in the crisis between North and South.

It is becoming more and more clear that GDP (gross domestic product) alone is not a good indicator of a country's performance.

The name Gruber is a moderately popular surname in Germany and the most common surname in Austria.

The following map shows the number of Nobel laureates per 10 million inhabitants in European countries (the smaller caption shows the actual number of Nobel laureates). It is based on a Wikipedia article that lists all Nobel laureates by country (there are a few cases where the map differs from the Wikipedia article, listed at the end of this article).

As the institutional use of open-source software continues to expand like an octopus, the public sector remains a key target market. Here’s a map to help you visualize just how prevalent Linux and open source have become across governments.

Relive the Great Fire of London through the eyes of the diarist Samuel Pepys with our interactive map.