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The Strait of Hormuz might be "completely open" for ships to pass through, depending on the source and the timing. Hard to say from anecdotes. But at least we can see what's been ...

Japanese officials and researchers have been carefully documenting when cherry blossoms bloom in Kyoto for the past 1,200 years. Yasuyuki Aono was the current record keeper, but he passed away rece ...

Millions of people protested in Hong Kong against China's Communist Party back in 2019. China imposed a national security law soon after. Reuters highlights the arrests of several hundred peo ...

Some occupations have more turnover than others. See how it varies for your occupation and others.

To make India's census documents more accessible to the public in the 1970s, the government worked on the Portrait of Population for the 1971 Census. Aman Bhargava and Vivek Matthew, for Diag ...

This week we put more information in the background to improve the signal in the foreground.

For most of history, maps of the Moon were based only on the light side, because that's all we could see from Earth. Danny Robb of Inverting Vision gives a visual history lesson on how we eve ...

Over four years, Barbara Iweins cataloged every object she owns -- all 12,795 of them -- with a photo. Longing for more stability in my life, I felt the urge to really lock myself into my ...

William S. Cleveland, one of the most respected statistical visualization researchers of all-time, passed on March 27, 2026 at 83 years old. From his obituary: A pioneering statistician, Bill helpe ...

For Al Jazeera, Mohamed A. Hussein and Mohammed Haddad provide a map of how Iran strategically observes and blocks the Strait of Hormuz from its islands and coastlines. The first strategic island a ...