What makes a data visualization memorable?

It's easy to spot a "bad" data visualization—one packed with too much text, excessive ornamentation, gaudy colors, and clip art. Design guru Edward Tufte derided such decorations as redundant at best, useless at worst, ...

New guidelines aim to improve understanding of scientific data

Researchers from University of East Anglia (UEA) have produced new guidelines aimed at improving the communication and understanding of scientific data - using knowledge of how the human brain processes visual and written ...

Turning numbers into pictures

Predictably, the cave is dark. Red lights glow overhead, scattering a faint, rosy lustre across the floor.

The exact point of the moon's south pole

Since 2009, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has been taking high-resolution pictures of the lunar surface. This data, along with the information from a laser altimeter mapping instrument has allowed scientists to create ...

Will ChatGPT replace computational materials scientists?

"ChatGPT is a very impressive tool," says Zijian Hong, professor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, China, and author of a new work published in the journal Energy Material Advances. ...

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