Astronomers have created a colorful interactive map of more than 200,000 galaxies and quasars spanning the lifespan of the cosmos. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

The choice of color to represent information in scientific images is a fundamental part of communicating findings. However, a number of color palettes that are widely used to display critical ...

Source: Wikimedia Commons / Frederic Edwin Church / 1866. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco How many colors are in the rainbow? Seven said Sir Isaac Newton. Of course, Newton knew that a spectrum is ...

The Vault is Slate’s history blog. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @slatevault, and find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. This stunning geological map of ...

The developers behind Dark Sky’s “Project Quicksilver” claim it’s the highest-resolution global map of real-time temperature. But that doesn’t mean it’s perfect.