Space debris poses a threat to both satellites and future space missions. The littering of space with defunct satellites and old rockets has accelerated dramatically these last years, mainly due to...
Dog genetics reveal surprising relationships among breeds. When it comes to traits, genetics-based lineages are more telling than human-made categories. Includes comparison plots and explainer...
Given the rise of scientific research to find drugs based on psychedelics, I seek to make an analysis of the current situation of patents, clinical studies, conditions under investigation and...
Medicaid-accepted mental health clinics are critical to providing more people with the opportunity to get the care they need. Unfortunately, it is not easy to find the appropriate clinics for...
Enroll-HD is a clinical research platform and the world’s largest observational study for Huntington’s disease (HD). It is a resource for the entire HD community, including families, clinicians,...
This piece explores recent and alarming data showing this year’s record-breaking extreme heat in Southeast Asia. April and May are typically the hottest months of the year there, as temperatures...
What the online encyclopedia has gained in responsiveness, completeness, and user engagement, it has lost in terms of the quality of its editorial design, typography, and illustrations. This...
Consider the accessibility and inclusiveness of the internet, by examining the internet speed performance.
How long it takes to transfer 100MB, in the ten countries with the fastest and slowest...
Neurodiversity is a crucial topic that remains largely unexplored, despite it being part of our everyday world. As our understanding of the human brain evolves, it's essential to acknowledge and...
Many of us routinely force our bodies to fight sleep. We drink caffeinated beverages by day to stay alert and alcohol to wind down at night. Some of us work all night and sleep in daylight. Others...
Part 2 of The Bat Lands. First it jumped from bats to pigs. Then pigs gave it to people. Now the brain-damaging Nipah virus has found a way to leap from bats to humans without an intermediary host....
This is an interactive summary chronicling the evolution of the A.I. field from the 1950s until the present day.
For each decade, key technical milestone events, pop-culture inspirations in film...
Nowadays, the term artificial intelligence is not new to anybody. “Intelligent“ devices and algorithms are everywhere – as digital assistants or chatbots, for example. The notion, that an algorithm...
How will »prompting« change the way we experience the world? Artificial Worldviews inquired GPT-3.5 about its knowledge of the world in 1.764 prompts and mapped out the results.
The advent of...
In the fast-paced world we inhabit, the importance of sleep often takes a backseat amidst the demands of modern life. My data visualization work titled 'Sleep - A Gateway to Vitality' underscores...
The United States has joined more than 90 countries in a pledge to combat climate change and species extinction by safeguarding 30 percent of Earth’s land and water by 2030. These maps show areas...
Data-driven research increasingly shows that climate change facilitates the spread of infectious disease. The shifting climate expands habitats for mosquitos, alters animal migration patterns, and...
When we tried to tell the story of Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s business empire, we had a dilemma. His holdings are so vast, the products traced back to his companies so numerous, it couldn’t...
In August 2022, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released a memo regarding public access to federally funded research articles. This website hosts interactive versions...
Three years ago, the coronavirus began quietly creeping through our communities. The virus would eventually take the lives of over one million Americans and leave millions more to navigate deep...
Toronto-area schools provide vaccination rates for the Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis (DTP) vaccine.
The Toronto Public Health staff work with schools to show that students have either been...
This visual, created created by the EVERSANA INTOUCH Data & Analytics team in tableau, shows the audience what type and how visitors navigate to the webpages on this particular website. The...
Last April was the 50 years anniversary of the first call done by Martin Cooper using the first mobile phone in history, which was big as a brick.
I wanted to find out more about that first model,...
From the vast lakes of the US to the mangrove forests of Bangladesh, everything is at stake as the world heats up. In this piece for Earth Day 2023, we look at 16 species and landscapes at risk of...
Health indicators make it possible to compare health spending per person in different countries and regions, assess government commitment to public health, and in turn reflect the economic health...
MetaverScope is a data-driven project that analyzes the contemporary landscape that is developing around metaverse technology in order to map its complex underlying digital infrastructure and...
There have been 61 Nobel Prizes awarded to 60 remarkable women for their exceptional accomplishments in their respective fields, of Science, Medicine, World Piece and the Literary Arts.
Explore...
This work started as a hobby data exploration done in the 3d software Houdini about a single glacier (the Careser) that I have a personal connection with – I climbed the Mt Cevedale several years...
BROMACKER project combines paleo research and science communication at the excavation site in the UNESCO Geopark Thuringia Inselsberg - Drei Gleichen, at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, at the...
Imagine if policy makers and interventionalists had the ability to access and explore aggregate health information from across geographic regions at their fingertips. The Population Health OutcomEs...