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You're looking at just one print from a collection that comprises dozens of spellbinding maps and charts based on the results of the 1870 US census — the ninth census ever conducted, and the first to be performed in the years following the Civil War. More »
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Behold every single "significant" Batsuit ever created, since the Dark Knight's first appearnce in 1939, all in one glorious infographic. Which batsuit is your favorite? More »
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Magic is mysterious and ancient, and its workings are often beyond the understanding of mere mortals. But that doesn't mean that magic doesn't have rules. More »
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The brave fans of Richard Dean Anderson (known to Gaters as Col. Jack O'Neill) are attempting to map out every single Stargate story arc in the 10 seasons Stargate SG-1 was on the air. Clearly this is a work in progress, as "200" and "Bad Guys" from Season 10 are missing. But we've got to applaud anyone who attempts to plot out all 214 episodes (and hopefully the DVD movies as well)! View the entire chart over at Richard Dean Anderson's Fanpage. More »
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The little number you see up top — titled "Chart of comets, star clusters and nebula" — was engraved in 1856 by one W. G. Evans for Burritt's Atlas to Illustrate the Geography of the Heavens. More »
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io9 pal and Institute for the Future policy wonk David Pescovitz has been working with a bunch of other cool futurists — including space hacker Ariel Waldman — on a quick guide to the future of science. They've grouped the ideas together in clusters, suggesting different innovations and discoveries that will grow out of new fields of inquiry. Pescovitz writes on BoingBoing: More »
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The Martian rover Curiosity, also known as the Mars Science Lab, is set to launch in the next few weeks. While you're jumping up and down waiting for us to get a closer look at Mars, you can enjoy looking back through history at all the missions we've launched to the Red Planet — and where they are now. More »
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Check out this absolutely adorable guide to the world of immortals. Our favorite is "The One That Didn't Get Interviewed." Behold the entire infographic glory.

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Still confused by the twists and turns inside Shane Carruth's time traveling indie Primer? Never fear, someone has finally made the ultimate guide to Abe's wild time-traveling ride. Behold the world's most complicated time travel movie, solved. (Sort of.) More »
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Now that we officially know the 100 greatest science fiction and fantasy books, according to NPR's fine readers, there's some great reading material waiting for all of us. But which of these great books is best for you? It's a dazzling amount of options, after all. More »
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Need some clarification on the ending of The Source Code? Director Duncan Jones recently took to Twitter with one of his hand-penned production diagrams. Be forewarned that there are spoilers out the wazoo here. Click on the above to expand. More »
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Our modern era doesn't just celebrate stories about gods and demi-gods — we have a whole host of new mythic figures that we obsess about, from Luke Skywalker to Superman to Captain Kirk. But who owns these legends? More »
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Rise of the Planet of the Apes hits theaters this Friday with a moving tale of genetically-altered apes who achieve human-level intelligence. But how does this film fit into the complicated time-travel tangles of the 40-year-old franchise? Let's investigate. More »
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Hacking is a noble pursuit — it's what tinkerers do to create cool new machines and innovate. But the media is obsessed with using the word "hacker" interchangeably with "criminal." That's why IEEE Spectrum magazine has created this helpful chart (click to enlarge), in which they try to separate out the good hacks from the bad. See if you can guess which ones are good and which are bad . . . answers are on the interactive chart at IEEE, where you can check the boxes to show only good hacks, bad ones, or neutral. More »
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Fringe doesn't come back for another couple months, but we haven't stopped obsessing about that baffling cliffhanger, and all the questions that the show has left us struggling with. More »
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Want to break down the messy mind of hoarder? We've got the first look at this pop psychology explanation in nifty infographic form. Click on the image to make it larger. More »
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A couple of years ago, two geographers created one of the most chilling maps you'll ever see - it shows what kinds of natural hazards are most likely to kill you in America. And which regions are the most deadly. More »
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What should you watch next? This helpful chart of all the scifi and fantasy series available on Netflix will save you from the summer's endless loop of reality TV dancing shows. Horror, space operas, UK, anthologies — it's all here! More »
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Are we living out the results of a temporal conspiracy in which hundreds of years were smuggled into the Roman calendar to convince us that the Middle Ages happened? Are we really living in the 1700s? This chart explains. More »
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Who has the biggest mouth in science fiction and fantasy? No, it's not Deadpool. We're talking giant mouths that can do things like eat the world. We've got a chart of the mightiest maws. More »
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Last year's Gulf Oil Spill released 205 million gallons of oil — such a huge amount, it's hard to get your mind around. To help conceptualize it, Chris Harmon created this amazing animated infographic. More »
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What is Duncan Jones' Source Code? This gorgeous infographic breaks down each source code cycle, in an attempt to explain just how the time-bending science in this film works. More »
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Artist Ward Shelley has created a massive timeline of the history of science fiction spanning from Aristophanes to Wall-E. More »
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You've seen video footage of Game Of Thrones' countryside including the infamous Wall, a 700-foot structure of ice and earth that spans the length of the continent. Now see where it's located, on complete this map of Westeros. More »
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Wonder where your place would be in the Star Wars worlds? Would you be a Jedi or dancing slave girl? Now's your chance to find out with this handy Star Wars job flowchart. More »
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Before Copernicus started insisting that the sun was the center of our solar system, scientists like Tycho devised elaborate data charts showing the Earth at its center. Now designer Piotr Kaczmarek has created gorgeous diagrams comparing Tychonian and Copernican views. More »
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Which apocalyptic scenario are you most likely to survive? Check out this handy flowchart that dictates which end of the world is right for you, based on brain flavor, Facebook tolerance and bird hatred. More »
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Space epics almost always play fast and loose with science, treating the laws of physics like suggestions. But some movies dismember Newton and Einstein with way more gusto than others. Here's our report card for bad science in 18 movies. More »
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The air is full of tiny liquid and solid particles, collectively known as aerosols. They're created by dust storms, volcanic eruptions, human activity, and even the natural passing of the seasons. This amazing map reveals where the aerosols are. More »
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Our dependence on plants shot up from 1995 to 2005, according to a new NASA study. Here's a map that shows which regions use more carbon than they produce (red) and which regions produce more than they use (green). More »
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Curious about the political leanings of people who read classic science fiction authors? Check out this online excerpt from the 1977 Analog Yearbook. It sums up the politics of 70s scifi readers in a handy graph. More »
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As you can see from the data, things are going orthogonal. See the place where X is bent sideways and growing a shaggy line graph? Well, that's the least of your worries. We've got more information you need to see. More »
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Mad scientists have haunted science fiction since Mary Shelley created Victor Frankenstein in the 1810s. But what kinds of research have fictional mad scientists done since? I was determined to find out. This chart shows what I discovered. More »
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Which sci-fi titles earned a spot on the list of IMDB's worst-rated titles? Find out which movies are the worst of the worst - surprisingly, some are even worse than that. More »
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Why was quicksand a major peril in 1960s movies, but suddenly no longer scary in the 1990s? In an entertaining essay for Slate, Dan Engber explains how quicksand is getting sucked out of pop culture - but reinvented by scientists. More »
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Over at the Orbit Books blog, they're posting the results of some serious research into the ways that urban fantasy heroines have changed over the past two years. At least, pictures of them on book covers. More »
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If human culture spread across several planets and no one lived on Earth, chances are a new way of tracking time would develop for the sake of inter-planetary communication, trade, and travel. More »
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During long history of planet Earth, massive extinctions and violent climate changes are the norm. We've created this infographic to help you chart the rise and fall and rise of life on Earth over the past few billion years. More »
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Roboticists have been churning out "baby" robots for the past several years, and now engineering magazine IEEE Spectrum breaks down the recent crop of techno-infants with this handy chart. More »
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