Bui, found that college students who had visual aids given to them before a science lecture were better able to understand and remember the lecture, but illustrative diagrams helped more than ...

Spatial reasoning, which is the ability to mentally visualize and manipulate two- and three-dimensional objects, also is a great predictor of talent in science ... learning to read the diagrams.

It’s hard to describe the structure of DNA, for example, without a diagram ... entirely new kind of science. The team calls this “viziometrics,” the science of visual information.

Charts and diagrams have long been used to help visualize various aspects of science, and vintage infographics provide a look at what learning was like a hundred years ago. Students could find ...