What do puzzles, gymnastics, writing and using maps all have in common? They all rely on people's ability to visualize objects as they spin, flip or turn in space, without physically moving them. This ...

The human brain: fascinatingly complex, historically misunderstood. In the fourth century, B.C., Aristotle described the brain’s coils as a cooling unit for the heart, where, he thought, the rational ...

The winners of our most recent Visualizing Science contest include an image related to “smart” material research, simulations of a meeting between a neutron star and a black hole and the connection ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. I strongly believe in the power of visualization. We must “see that image” in our mind before we ever venture forth to manifest it. Jim ...

Defining cell architecture at the mesoscale (i.e. at length scales that are larger than the molecular machinery) increases knowledge of cell function. However, many subcellular biological structures ...

The College of Natural Sciences again invited its faculty, staff and students to submit the best images from their research for our Visualizing Science competition. The images they delivered are the ...

A series of five commissioned Reviews discuss the challenges of visualizing biological data and the visualization tools available to biologists working with genomes, alignments and phylogenies, ...