This will definitely help your social media envy.

The good folks at Slate introduced a creative mapping tool, dubbed the Equal Population Mapper. This interactive graphic allows users to pick a population center (e.g., New York City, Wyoming, the Coasts) and compare its relative density to any area ...

Despite the simplicity of discrete event data, it’s hard to visualize many events over a long time period without hiding details about shorter timescales.

Worth a quick mention: The University of Chicago Press has made available online -- at no cost -- the first three volumes of The History of Cartography. Or what Edward Rothstein, of The New York Times, called 'the most ambitious overview of map ...

The neutrino and its antimatter cousin, the antineutrino, are the tiniest subatomic particles known to science. These particles are byproducts of nuclear reactions within stars (including our sun), supernovae, black holes and human-made nuclear react ...

We see wars unfold on live video alongside satellite maps, but our eighteenth-century counterparts had to wait. Maps had to be drawn, engraved, and printed before they were sold to those who could afford them.

When will the leaves start changing? When will they peak? Our 2015 Fall Foliage Map and leaf prediction tool has the answers you are looking for.

But protective effect seems to last only about as long as exclusive nursing does

There are visualization rules and there are visualization suggestions. Most are suggestions. The ones that are rules exist because of how our brains process visual information. This zero baseline thing is a rule.

How long will it be before people with MS get well? No way to know. But there is funding for the research. Because California voters said YES to Proposition 71, the Stem Cells for Research and Cures Act, we have a chance to defeat Multiple Sclerosis.

Horror icon Wes Craven has passed away after a battle with brain cancer. He was 76.

A little known Seattle startup could do for metal what 3D printing is doing for other materials like plastic.

There is no science behind a formal, one-size-fits-all requirement of daily water consumption.

One of the largest and best free sources of data in the US is the Census Bureau’s American Fact Finder.

Investigators are still struggling to understand the most powerful eruption in recorded history, which gave rise to icy weather and pandemics, but also to great literature and art.

What appears personalized and creative ends up being neither.

If you're like most homeowners, you probably sneak a peek at your 'Zestimate' from time to time to see how your home's value might have changed. Here's a glimpse at the data science behind the curtain.

Hackaday Prize Semifinalist whose goal is to create a cooling system for MS'ers.

We'll pick a random 10-year period and see if you can spot and avoid the downturn.

Around the time my firstborn was learning to walk, my wife and I tried a tag-team approach to parenting. I'd take most of the early morning shifts and then head to the office. Most evenings, no matter what was happening at work, I'd log bac ...