The 2016 Vizzies
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Once again, Popular Science has teamed up with the to issue a challenge: Can you visualize a scientific idea, concept, or story in an arresting way? If so, submit your work to the 2016 Vizzies! You can enter over on the . The competition has five categories: photography, illustration, posters and graphics, interactive, and video, which should cover just about every way to communicate science visually.
We’re accepting submissions through September 15, at 11:59 p.m. Pacific time. After that, our panel of scientific and visualization experts choose the winners. Finalists appear online for a global people’s choice vote. Winners—both the people’s choices and the experts’ choices—will be featured in Popular Science and get cash prizes.
Need a little inspiration? Here are . They include a revealing X-ray of a tortoise and chemistry way more winsome than the typical science-class experiments. Plus, a number of last year’s winners and finalists were chosen for an exhibit last month at the , displayed on big digital screens at the National Museum of Heath and Medicine in Chicago:
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Finalists from the 2015 Vizzies competition, on display at the Chicago Science Festival in late May
today!