Precision is critical when communicating scientific information. For figures, precision means not only technical accuracy, but also visual consistency. Attention to detail is vital to how effective a ...

For example, if there is a typo in the text, people will notice. The same principle applies to scientific figures, except here, in addition to typos in text labels, scientists have to contend with ...

Scientists devote a substantial amount of time communicating their work to their peers and to nonscientists. Such communication, whether oral or written, is often illustrated with figures and line ...

It’s hard to describe the structure of DNA, for example, without a diagram ... These guys begin by downloading 4.8 million figures from 650,000 scientific papers from the online database ...

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I've done a lot of similar figures with Inkscape. There are some aspects of the interface that are a bit unintuitive, but overall, it's quite good. A must have for any scientific work, though ...