The bushfires in Australia have been a catastrophic natural disaster. According to the Daily Telegraph, as of January 2, approximately 5.9 million hectares of land has been burnt in Australia — for perspective, that's more land than Denmark and The Netherlands.
No, not THAT Justin. What facial recognition tells us about how memory works (or doesn't).
Dozens of reports have been published on microplastics but the scientific community is still only scratching the surface of understanding just how much plastic we consume and how harmful it could be.
This animated chart is a fascinating look at which movies have stayed relevant and which movies haven't stood the test of time (see "Trainspotting," which entered the rankings at #2 in 1996 — and then immediately disappeared):
Every year, millions of Americans purchase and decorate Christmas trees to ring in the holiday season. Whether they are bought at a lawn and garden store, pop-up lot, or harvested from a tree farm or national forest, a live tree is an integral part of the tradition for many families.
Americans have taken to the streets in more than twenty thousand protests since the inauguration of President Donald Trump. Count Love catalogues those events by crawling the web for news stories about protest. The data only includes events that were covered in the media. However, Count Love offers a rich look into protest in the public eye.
Reuters analyzed newly released data to reveal the extent of daily traffic at the summit and shed light on those who lost their lives on Everest and elsewhere in the Himalayas.
We analyzed the dialogue in all eight movies to find out which characters spoke the most.
An analysis of millions of articles shows how coverage of hot-button topics changed in the 2010s.
Vox breaks down how different groups in America are taxed and which ones pay the most.
If you'd invested $100 in Netflix in 2009, your investment would be almost a staggering $4,000 now.
We're not saying all FedEx deliveries are like this, but the odyssey that this particular package has embarked upon is a real gem.
Here are the chances that you're going to run into these unusual animals.
You've probably seen a visualization of what all the water on Earth looks like as a sphere — but what about all the other materials that make up our planet's crust, water and atmosphere?
There have been 2.25 million traffic accidents reported from 2016 to 2019. Here's a map showing which places in the US have had the most severe traffic accidents in the past three years.
A previous chart looked at shifts in job distribution over the past several decades, but it was difficult to see by how much each occupation group changed individually. The chart below makes the changes more obvious.
Before the 1930s, Christmas trees typically were cut down on an individual's property or out in the wild. Now, tree farms in all 50 states (yes, Hawaii too) are where most Christmas trees come from, accounting for 98 percent of live Christmas trees brought into homes.
Old ships' logs are giving scientists new insights into the past and future of the earth's changing climate.
New analysis now includes data from more than 1 million races.
Federal Reserve officials believed that the labor market was about as good as it could get. They were wrong.
In the 1950s, almost half of all employed people were either in farming or manufacturing. As you can imagine, work changed a bit over the years.
What countries are best represented in US cuisine?
A tally of the stats on every duel across "Star Wars" films.
From Michael Jordan to Floyd Mayweather, some athletes have made an obscene amount of money.
The United States is the largest consumer of coffee in the world, but the location of the biggest coffee chains differ greatly depending on which part of the country you're in.
Which genre contains the most "action," besides action movies? Or which film genre has the least amount of fantasy? What genres blend together nicely? Which genres overshadow others when they're blended together?
In 1998, a majority of American workers were employed in manufacturing and less than 20% in health care and social assistance jobs. 20 years later, those percentages have flipped.
Moore's Law posits that the number of transistors on a microchip will double every two years — turns out, he was right on the money.
Using advanced NBA stats to rank player performance against pay.
Below is a sample of all the things people get stuck in the rectums, based on data from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System.
We thought the richest person in the world was Jeff Bezos. Turns out we forgot one very important world leader figure.
A public opinion poll was conducted online by Reuters/Ipsos in September and gathered responses from 1,115 adults, with a measure of precision of three percentage points.
As the number of satellites and space junk in orbit continues to increase, so do the chances of these human-made objects colliding with one another.
The level of taxation is surprisingly uneven across the country, so if taxation is an important factor in your decision-making about where to live, here is a graph that ranks the best and worst states for taxes.
Dr James O'Donoghue, a planetary scientist at JAXA, demonstrates how fast each planet rotates in comparison with each other (Jupiter is really frickin' fast).
When it comes to English-speaking countries, the popular conception is that Smith is the most common last name, but is that conception really true?
From "Seinfeld" to "Game of Thrones," here are the most popular TV shows from 1986 to 2019, based on audience reports, one week of reported statistics for downloaded copies (pirated), one week of streaming services viewership.
Running for the most powerful office in the world is going to cost you.
The winter holidays have always been hard on our pocketbooks, but just how much money do Americans, on average, spend on each holiday?
This animated chart pits some unusual but surprisingly common causes of death against each other.
We investigated a dataset of more than 30,000 high school yearbook photos from 1930-2013 to find out when big hair was at its height.
Bill Gates became the world's richest man yet again, passing Jeff Bezos with a net worth of approximately $110 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires index. What does that look like?
Some states require over $1 million in savings to retire comfortably, while some states require much less.
If you've ever lived in or driven through a sparsely populated rural area, you've probably thought of it as "the middle of nowhere." But it was likely far from being truly remote, in the grand scheme of things.
Throughout the past twelve years, certain Wikipedia articles have gotten a spike in traffic.
As the cost of buying a house continues to balloon, you may have found yourself looking at home listings and sighing deeply. But where are residential prices the *most* soul-crushingly expensive?
At one end of the spectrum, based on 2018 data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, physicians have a median salary of $200,890 in the United States. In contrast, waiters and waitresses have a median salary of $21,780.
Want the fastest internet? Come to Queens.
As Australian airline Qantas launches record-breaking flights that are pushing the limits of nonstop flights, here's a look at the longest nonstop flights currently in existence around the world.
We all worry that everyone around us is happier, richer and more sexually experienced. But statistically, is that really the case? Let's crunch some numbers.
By adjusting nighttime lights according to the population, we can see which areas emit an outsized amount of light per person living there.
Take a look at the most-visited attractions in each state — and start planning your next road trip.
We know when Americans reach $100,000 in savings. We know how much people are saving. But this begs the question: How much should you be saving?
A racing bar chart over time of the most popular music artists from 1969 to 2019 ranked by yearly certified record sales.
Every year, the old adage "the rich get richer and the poor get poorer" seems to grow more explicitly apparent. HowMuch.net visualized the median net worth of adults living across the globe.
The top-earning music artists from each state in 2019, from Ariana Grande (Florida) to Wiz Khalifa (North Dakota?!).
If you had invested $100 in the No.1 best-performing stock this century, your investment would be worth a whopping $62,444 today. That stock? Monster, the energy drink company.
Every time we think we have a grasp of how big the universe is and the planets and stars in it are, we get a reminder like this.
We know the Earth spins on its axis once every 24 hours. Well, every 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4 seconds, to be exact. But how does that compare to the rest of the planets and dwarf planets (hey, Pluto) in the Solar System?
Europe's boundaries have evolved quite a bit over the past 1,000 years and Redditor desfirsit demonstrated the scope of that change by creating a map of all of the continent's borders over the millennium overlaid on one map.
