Scientists Capture Eerie Photos of Mysterious Elephant Burial
Scientists captured eerie photos of a mysterious elephant burial -- that revealed how animals mourn and bury their dead in a poignantly similar way to humans. [Read More]
Scientists captured eerie photos of a mysterious elephant burial -- that revealed how animals mourn and bury their dead in a poignantly similar way to humans. [Read More]
The winner of the Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition has been announced with a hidden microscopic world on an autumnal leaf taking home the top prize. [Read More]
With a calculated blending of photography, science, and practical effects, photographer Scott Portingale captures and presents dynamic images of macro worlds and chemical reactions all within a square inch of a petri dish. [Read More]
Researchers from Samsung Labs have developed a way to create high-resolution avatars, or deepfakes, from a single still frame photo or even a painting. [Read More]
July 20, International Moon Day, marked the 53rd anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing. To celebrate, NASA released a video that revisits the mission's landing point on the Moon to reveal the astronaut's tracks are still there after all this time. [Read More]
Phase One has optimized the world's first fully automated multispectral imaging solution, which will make it faster and easier for art conservation, forensics, and science professionals to examine delicate subjects. [Read More]
Photographer and filmmaker Jan van IJken’s photo series and film peers into the unseen world of one of the most important lifeforms on Earth: plankton. Titled “Planktonium,” van IJken says that the goal was to take the viewer on a voyage into what he describes as a “secret universe” that is inhabited by alien-like creatures. […]
Over the last several months, Samsung has published several detailed and easy-to-understand videos that discuss specific aspects of its imaging technology. Its most recent video combines many of these topics into a succinct and informative overview of its 108-megapixel ISOCELL HM3 sensor.
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If you’ve heard of Fresnel lenses in photography before but have no idea what they are or how they work, here’s a fantastic short primer. In this 3.5-minute video, physicist David G. Willey (AKA the Mad Scientist) explains the science behind the lens style using a simple and easy-to-understand model on a blackboard. Willey is […]
The world’s first photo of black hole was published back in April 2019, and scientists have been laboring to find ways to capture sharper images of the mysterious regions of spacetime. Scientists are now saying that focusing on a black hole’s “photon ring” may lead to a huge increase in sharpness. In a new paper […]
Johns Hopkins University and the Rochester Institute of Technology recently announced Images from Science 3 (IFS3), a collection and international touring exhibit of the best and most thought-provoking images curated from the fields of astronomy, medical photography and illustration, material sciences photography, and related industries.
The world of science was taken by storm this week when scientists from the University of Glasgow released a scientific paper that showed an image of Quantum Entanglement (more specifically Bell Entanglement) taking place.
If you’ve never learned the technical details of what “middle gray” and “18% gray” are, check out this 6-minute video by Filmmaker IQ. John Hess shares the math and science behind the concepts to demystify them.
NASA is looking for people who are willing to regularly snap and share photos of clouds. The space agency is turning to citizen scientists for a cloud observation project that will help validate the images captured by satellites in space.
Standard schlieren imaging techniques use a large mirror to be able to visualize heat or pressure differences in air. The problem with these techniques is that they require large precision telescope mirrors that are very expensive.
Here’s a 2. 5-minute video recorded by a GoPro Session action camera that was given a trip through an electron beam irradiator. “Radiation shielded Gopro Session is sent through electron beam irradiator,” writes Andrew Seltzman of RTF Technologies, who posted the video in December 2016.
Hyperfocal distance is a tool often used by certain genres of photography to render an entire scene in focus. It allows you to capture the foreground through to the background, keeping the whole image sharp.
In a research paper published today in Astronomy & Astrophysics, scientists have released the sharpest image ever of a black hole. [Read More]
An international team of scientists has discovered three new underwater hydrothermal vents over a 434-mile-long stretch of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge that showcases a fascinating "city" that is teeming with life. [Read More]
Most digital cameras from the 2000s and 2010s are equipped with an optical element called an optical low-pass filter (OLPF), also known as an anti-aliasing (AA) or blur filter.
Scientists have recently trapped and photographed a giant deep-sea isopod -- a giant, underwater cousin of the pillbug -- off the coast of Mexico and after studying it closely, realized that it was an entirely new species. [Read More]
A dual-shutter vibration-sensing system developed by Carnegie Mellion University (CMU) researchers uses standard, ordinary cameras to see sound vibrations with such precision that it can reconstruct the music made by a single instrument out of a band. [Read More]
This historical 1885 photograph depicts three women doctors who all graduated and each became the first woman from their respective countries (India, Japan, and Syria) to obtain a degree in Western medicine.
In honor of The International Year of the Periodic Table, the scientists behind the Beauty of Science project set out to capture the 11 chemical elements that make up 99% of your body in the most artistic way possible.
The night sky offers an unlimited source of markers (e. g. stars, constellations, Milky Way, etc. ) that never lie about the time of year and location in the world you shot a night sky picture from.
Art is something we all enjoy in one way or another. We assume it is a subjective subject, but there may be an objective angle that we can observe art from. Perhaps art isn’t subjective at all? Neuroaesthetics is a scientific approach to art in the way it is both produced and consumed, and this […]
Tracking and panning a camera in time with a tank shell seems impossible given that the shell travels at over 1,500 meters per second. Yet, somehow, there are videos showing just that floating around the Internet.
Here’s a 15-minute video by Filmmaker IQ about exactly what forced perspective is and how it works in photography. Forced perspective is an optical illusion where an object may appear smaller or larger, or nearer or further away, than it actually is.
For years, airline pilots have reported seeing unusual lightning phenomenon that we don’t get to witness from the ground. Luckily for us, astronauts on the International Space Station have a perfect vantage point, and one of them did capture “blue lightning” while orbiting the Earth.
Using the remarkable 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera (DECam), astronomers have made a 1.3-gigapixel image of the ghostly Vela Supernova Remnant. The beautiful, detailed, and colorful image is the largest DECam image ever at 35,786 by 35,881 pixels, putting even the highest-resolution medium-format interchangeable lens cameras to shame. [Read More]
Nikon Inc. and NASA have entered into a Space Act Agreement to support NASA's Artemis mission program through the Handheld Universal Lunar Camera (HULC) development.
Google is working alongside the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) to better understand methane emissions and potential mitigations. [Read More]
Christian Spencer became well-known for his stunning photos of hummingbirds that show rainbows in their wings, it's a specialized technique of shooting the amazing birds, one which Spencer pioneered. [Read More]
The Hubble Space Telescope is celebrating its 33rd year in orbit around Earth. To celebrate this incredible milestone, the Hubble team has released an incredible photo of a nearby star-forming region, NGC 1333. [Read More]
The black-naped pheasant-pigeon, a large, ground-dwelling pigeon that only lives on one island, has been documented by scientists for the first time since its 1882 discovery and has been captured on camera for the first time ever. [Read More]
The world's first 4K camera built into a centrifuge shows what foods and other substances look like as they are separated at 2,500 times the gravity of Earth. [Read More]
An international research team has observed signs of rotation in a galaxy that existed only 500 million years after the Big Bang, easily the earliest galaxy ever observed that shows a signature of rotation. [Read More]
Compound eyes are a common feature in many insects and for years their vision has been treated as very different from that of mammals. A new study, however, may have found that human eyes might be more like an insect's than previously believed. [Read More]
China’s Chang’e 5 lunar lander has found the first-ever on-site evidence of water on the Moon’s surface. Photos shot by the probe show the Moon rock and surrounding lunar soil that the water was detected in.