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StatsPanda infographic titled The Most Expensive Materials In The World by cost per gram, a pyramid of 15 black circles with photos and prices from antimatter at $62.5 trillion at the top to plutonium and Lux Touch Marble at $4,000 at the bottom

Science

Most Expensive Material in the World, 15 Ranked by Gram

By StatsPanda

Antimatter tops it at $62.5 trillion a gram, followed by rare isotopes, lab-made molecules and gemstones such as painite and red beryl.

Graphic titled Orbital Launch Attempts of 2024 showing every orbital launch of the year as a rocket drawing, grouped into boxes for SpaceX, CNSA, Roskosmos, Rocket Lab, ULA, ISRO, JAXA, ESA and smaller providers, with a metre height scale and a human figure for comparison

Science

Orbital Launches 2024, Every Attempt Drawn by Provider

By DobleG42 on Reddit

Wikipedia counts 261 orbital launch attempts worldwide that year, 156 of them on American rockets.

Visual Capitalist graphic titled The Relative Size of Particles showing 3D renderings of the Zika virus, T4 bacteriophage, coronavirus, wildfire smoke, bacterium, PM2.5 and PM10 dust, respiratory droplets, red and white blood cells, pollen, salt and beach sand beside a strand of human hair

Science

The Relative Size of Particles, From Viruses to Sand

By Carmen Ang, Visual Capitalist

The coronavirus is 0.1 to 0.5 µm, wildfire smoke 0.4 to 0.7 µm and a red blood cell 7 to 8 µm.

Compound Interest infographic titled Chemical Composition of Gemstones, showing 16 gems from alexandrite to zircon, each with its chemical formula, Mohs hardness and the cause of its colour

Science

Chemical Composition of Gemstones, 16 Formulas and Colours

By Compound Interest (Andy Brunning)

Ruby and sapphire share one formula, Al2O3, as do emerald and aquamarine.

Vertical infographic titled Life in Space over a starfield, with coloured bars from 1970 to 2030 and beyond for Salyut 1 to 7, Skylab, Mir, the International Space Station, Tiangong and the planned Haven stations, plus crew size, habitable volume and a silhouette of each station

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Life in Space Timeline, Every Crewed Space Station Since 1971

By Vast

This Life in Space timeline charts every crewed space station from Salyut 1 in 1971 through Skylab, Mir, the International Space Station and China's…

Cutaway painting titled Human body from the book More Incredible Cross-Sections, showing a walking man with layers peeled back to reveal facial muscles, skull and brain, lungs, heart, liver, stomach and intestines, limb bones, muscles, arteries and veins, with cross-sections of the neck vertebrae, thigh and calf and short fact boxes around the figure

Health and Fitness

Human Anatomy Infographic, a Cutaway of the Human Body

By Stephen Biesty and Richard Platt, DK

It peels back skin, muscle, organs and bone, names more than 70 parts and adds 18 fact boxes.

Defining Senescence infographic summarising ICCARP definitions, with a 95% ring chart of older adults with chronic conditions, a graph of accelerated, normative and healthy ageing, a diagram from stressor to acute senescence branching to physiological repair or pathological damage, and sections on tissue, organ, systems and organismal senescence

Health and Fitness

Senescence vs Aging, How ICCARP Defines Senescence

By ICCARP

This graphic explains senescence vs aging using the standard definitions agreed by ICCARP, an international group of scientists and clinicians.

Tall chart titled The Lethal Doses of 55 Substances with a toxicity scale from 100,000 mg/kg to 1 ng/kg and 55 illustrated cards from water, sucrose and MSG through caffeine, cocaine and fentanyl to tetanus and botulinum toxin, each with its LD50

Health and Fitness

Lethal Dose Chart of 55 Substances, Water to Botulinum Toxin

By CEUfast

Values run from 90,000 mg/kg for water to 1 ng/kg for botulinum toxin, and the chart notes that most figures come from animal tests.

Visual Capitalist poster The Standard Model of Particle Physics, zooming from matter to subatomic particles, with a radial chart of six quarks, six leptons and five bosons, and a panel matching electromagnetism, the weak force, the strong force and gravitation to their bosons

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Standard Model of Particle Physics Poster by Visual Capitalist

By Visual Capitalist

This Standard Model of particle physics poster from Visual Capitalist arranges the 17 fundamental particles on a radial chart: six quarks, six leptons and…

Compound Interest chart Functional groups in organic chemistry showing 40 circular icons with structural formulas, naming endings and example compounds, colour coded for hydrocarbons and halogen, oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur and phosphorus containing groups

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Functional Groups in Organic Chemistry, 40 Groups Chart

By Compound Interest (Andy Brunning)

This Compound Interest chart shows 40 functional groups in organic chemistry, from alkanes and alcohols to sulfonic acids and phosphines.

Rockets of the World poster by Skrabek, showing 76 rockets drawn to scale in five rows from Black Arrow, V2 and Electron to Falcon 9, SLS, N1, Saturn V and Starship, each with a flag, years active, payload, launch record and height, with a school bus for scale

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Rockets of the World, 76 Launch Vehicles Drawn to Scale

By Skrabek

Skrabek's Rockets of the World poster lines up 76 launch vehicles at the same scale, from Britain's 13 m Black Arrow to SpaceX's 120 m Starship.

Compound Interest infographic titled The Chemistry of Wine, showing five winemaking steps from preparation to bottling and molecular structures of anthocyanins, tannins, flavan-3-ols and flavonols around a glass of red wine

Food and Drink

The Chemistry of Wine, Key Compounds and Winemaking Steps

By Andy Brunning, Compound Interest

This chemistry of wine graphic by Andy Brunning of Compound Interest shows the five steps of winemaking and the four groups of compounds behind red wine's…

UNOOSA and ESA infographic titled We're launching more than ever, a circular bar chart around the Earth with one bar per year from the 1960s to 2023, coloured for non commercial, commercial and unregistered objects, with the 2020s bars reaching about 2,400

Science

The Increasing Frequency of Satellite Launches, UN and ESA Chart

By UNOOSA and ESA

Yearly launches stayed near 100 to 200 for decades, then climbed past 2,000 in the 2020s, driven by commercial missions and smaller satellites.

Science

NASA Earth Observation Satellites, the 2024 Earth Fleet Chart

By NASA Earth Science Division

It lists 34 missions, from Landsat 7, Terra and Aqua to SWOT, PACE and the planned Earth System Observatory, plus 7 instruments on the International Space…

Evolution and Branches of Humankind chart by u/Flashy-Vegetable-679, a human family tree from the human and chimpanzee common ancestor through Sahelanthropus, Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, Paranthropus and the Homo genus to Neanderthals, Denisovans and Homo sapiens, with fossil photos and date ranges

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Evolution and Branches of Humankind, a Human Family Tree Chart

By Flashy-Vegetable-679 on Reddit

It lists more than 40 species and subspecies with fossil dates, from Sahelanthropus at about 7 million years ago to Neanderthals, Denisovans and Homo…

Visual Capitalist infographic titled Human Evolution, From Protocells to People, a descending staircase of illustrated organisms from Protocells (4.3 Ga) through Dickinsonia, Pikaia, Tiktaalik, Cynognathus, Plesiadapis and Australopithecus to Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens (160 ka), with gains and losses of traits marked at each stage

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Human Evolution Timeline From Protocells to People

By Mark Belan, Visual Capitalist

This Visual Capitalist human evolution timeline traces 38 stages from protocells 4.3 billion years ago to Homo sapiens, with the body parts and functions…

History of the Universe timeline by Frédéric Durillon, a funnel that widens from the Big Bang on the left through inflation, the cosmic microwave background, the dark ages and the first stars and galaxies to today at 13.8 billion years, with time, temperature and energy labels

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Timeline of the Universe, Big Bang to 13.8 Billion Years

By Frédéric Durillon (Animea Studio)

In order came cosmic inflation in the first fraction of a second, the first protons and neutrons within a hundred-thousandth of a second, the first nuclei…

Martin Vargic Halcyon Maps poster titled Exoplanets showing more than 500 painted exoplanets on a black background arranged by mean temperature from -200 to 2000 degrees Celsius and density from 1 to 20 grams per cubic centimetre, with text panels on gas giants, gas dwarfs, ice giants and terrestrial planets

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Exoplanets Infographic, 500 Worlds by Temperature and Density

By Martin Vargic, Halcyon Maps

The count of confirmed exoplanets has since passed 6,000.

The Orchid Tree of Life poster, a black evolutionary tree of the orchid family with coloured bubbles for the five subfamilies, grass orchids Apostasioideae 87 million years ago, vanilla, slipper, Orchidoideae and moth orchids Epidendroideae, with genus names, flower photographs, species counts and Kew project credits

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The Orchid Tree of Life, Orchid Evolution and Family Tree

By Orchid Tree of Life project, RBG Kew

The Orchid Tree of Life poster shows how the five orchid subfamilies branched off over the last 87 million years, from the grass orchids to Epidendroideae,…

Rocket shaped flow chart titled What It Takes To Go To Space, Data Visualization on NASA Astronauts, linking country of birth, military rank, age when selected, educational background and alma mater, with the streams fanning out like an exhaust plume

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NASA Data Visualization of Astronaut Backgrounds

Most were born in the United States, joined aged 31 to 40 and studied engineering.

Animal Vision Seeing Color infographic, a wheel of twelve animal photos from a bee and monkey to a mantis shrimp and goldfish, grouped by monochromacy, dichromacy, trichromacy, tetrachromacy and pentachromacy, with cone cell counts and colours perceived

Animals

Animal Color Vision, From One to Five Cone Types

It runs from monochromats such as whales, with one type and an estimated 200 colours, to pentachromats such as pigeons, with five and 10 billion.

History of Life as we know it, circular geological timeline from the Hadean to the Quaternary with silhouettes of life in each period, red mass extinction markers, continental drift maps from Pangea to today and a to-scale Phanerozoic bar chart

Science

History of Life on Earth Timeline, Eras, Periods and Extinctions

By Pacific Rubiales Energy

It shows the four eras, 15 periods and eons, five mass extinctions and the drift of the continents from Pangea.

Ray Troll hand drawn geologic time scale shown as a fossil filled rock cliff, with Cenozoic, Mesozoic and Paleozoic eras, periods from Cambrian to Holocene with dates in millions of years, T/K and T/P extinction markers, a pterosaur and fossil hunters with a blue pickup truck on top

Science

Geologic Time Scale Infographic, Ray Troll Fossil Cliff

By Ray Troll

It marks the Cenozoic, Mesozoic and Paleozoic eras, 17 periods and epochs with their start dates, and the two largest mass extinctions.

Techniques of Science Denial tree diagram of the FLICC taxonomy, with branches for fake experts, logical fallacies, impossible expectations, cherry picking and conspiracy theories and icons for techniques such as magnified minority, straw man, red herring, blowfish, moving goalposts, quote mining and immune to evidence

Education and Learning

Techniques of Science Denial, the FLICC Framework

By John Cook, Skeptical Science

Each branches into named tactics such as magnified minority, straw man, moving goalposts and quote mining, 30 techniques in all, with a definition for each…

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