The visual storytelling team at the Financial Times has put together a stunning story documenting oil smuggling in North Korea. The piece is introduced with a 3D reconstruction of a ship-to-ship transfer, recreated from satellite imagery. Throughout, the story is complemented by charts, maps, and a comprehensive network diagram.

Bartosz Ciechanowski has created an amazing interactive article explaining the physics of a bicycle. It features a series of simulations that explain the mechanics of a bicycle, and how it stays upright. It is one in a series of amazing interactive explainers Bartosz has put together.

This article from the team at Bloomberg shows how the industry surrounding celebrity beauty brands has waxed and waned over the past few years. Its centerpiece is a fun and informative scrollable timeline that shows the explosion of celebrity beauty brands over the past few years, and how that growth might be slowing down.

To accompany a recently-released static report, researchers at FAU and the V-Dem Institute have put together an interactive website that allows users to explore the data behind the report. This interactive dashboard, built by Ilja Sperling, makes the otherwise complex and static data available to a wider audience.

For Axios, Kavya Beheraj showcases the surfaces of Venus and the women they are named after. The presented research shows where these women were originally from, as well as their professions.