The National Science Foundation and the journal Science announce the winners of last year's contest for the best visualizations in science and engineering.

Data visualization is a place where science meets art, although the jury is still out on whether the practice is more a scientific endeavor or an artistic one. Although experts agree that a com- ...

There’s a science review, and then there’s a sort of cinematic review.” Often, the science and the cinema must inform each other to make a visualization work.

Science and engineering's most powerful statements are not made from words alone: the National Science Foundation (NSF) along with the journal Science last week announced the winners of the ninth ...

Travel back 390 million years after the big bang to the ancient Maisie's Galaxy in this stunning 3D visualization that ...

Around 15 years ago, for biologists awash with data, visualization was often dealt with as an add-on, an afterthought. Fast-forward to today, and data visualization is making something of a comeback.

Visualization is the art of getting those two systems—seeing and thinking—to speak a common language, so they can pool their strengths. Historically, innovations in visualization have powered ...

In explaining complicated science, a picture can be worth far more than a thousand words. Science visualization brings to life the often under-appreciated beauty of the way the world works–from ...

The 2011 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge winners include this informational poster, which traces galaxies and dark matter throughout the universe. This computational ...

Science isn't just for the laboratory and the classroom: It's also for big-screen theaters and video games, as demonstrated by the winners of this year's International Science and Engineering ...