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Marchers are voicing support for scientists and safeguards to the scientific community. [See live updates from the March for Science] Here are some scenes from the 2017 March for Science.
A new study may help explain why people choose to include themselves in some photos -- and it is not vanity. Researchers found that first-person photos (capturing the scene as it looks from one's ...
As 2018 comes to a close, we've rounded up some of the best science and nature photos that we saw this year.
Why do some photographs give people strange, red eyes? (AnemoneProjectors, Wikimedia Commons) Red-eye pictures, on today's Moment of Science.
Marine researchers across Australia can now get a better idea of what's under the surface due to an award-winning project that allows them to classify and share their research pictures online.
From the ‘brains’ of NASA’s Europa Clipper to a lion’s mane jellyfish, the 29 images selected for the 2023 annual National Geographic Pictures of the Year issue commemorate extraordinary ...
Looking at images of Earth from space, you might have noticed a conspicuous lack of stars, but it turns out there's a good reason for that.
The partial eclipse on Thursday night and Friday morning lasted more than six hours, and these photos captured the moon’s rust-red hue.
Science fiction is the genre of ideas — but it’s also given us some unforgettable pictures along the way. Every era in science fiction’s history has shown us a new vision of the strange and ...
<p>Why have those smartphone self-portraits taken over the Internet? It could be because they feed an age-old human need to assert identity.</p> ...
The 5th annual Close-up Photographer of the Year competition celebrated detailed glimpses of the natural world. Here are a few of the finalists and winners.
David Hachuel wants pictures of your poop — for science. The computer scientist-turned-entrepreneur is working to build the world’s largest database of human stool photos — up to 100,000 in ...