Stars vanish from night sky as light pollution from cities, towns grows

For most of human history, the night sky has been a shared inheritance, a source of wonder. Now, more than a billion children ...
Family Destinations Guide

Step Inside Indiana’s Creepiest Museum And Prepare To Be Amazed

The Indiana Medical History Museum in Indianapolis delivers that exact sensation the moment you step through its doors. This ...
Digital Camera World

These award-winning underwater photos were captured with compact cameras and a GoPro, proving big camera gear isn’t necessary to win a big contest

Major photo contests typically conjure images of big, high-end cameras – but not every photo that has won a major award was ...
Nature

See raining iguanas and coral from the inside out — February’s best science images

Back from the brink. Under a microscope at Chester Zoo, UK, a greater Bermuda snail (Poecilozonites bermudensis) awaits its ...

Tiny flows, big insights: Microfluidics system boosts super-resolution microscopy

Understanding how cells are organized and how their molecular components interact in a coordinated and cooperative manner is a central goal of modern life sciences. To answer these questions, ...
Smithsonian Magazine

We’ve Been Manipulating Images Since the Invention of Photography—Long Before Photoshop or Artificial Intelligence

Dating to between 1860 and 1940, more than 50 photographs depicting the impossible are on view in a new exhibition at the ...

How to get a good photo of the blood moon

Here are some tips for capturing the striking reddish moon on March 3. But if you don't get the perfect picture, don't worry.
Digital Camera World

The camera in your pocket was actually made to go to outer space. NASA explains how the sensor inside billions of devices was first developed for space missions

The camera in your pocket is hiding tech that was originally made for outer space. The sensor that is now widely used in most smartphone cameras, compact cameras, and mirrorless cameras – the ...