Photography
This New Photo App Can Help Doctors Brainstorm What, Exactly, That Weird Thing Growing on Your Leg Is
It's like Instagram but with rotting toes and tumors instead of filters
June 12, 2013 |
By Colin Schultz
San Francisco From the Air, 1938 and Today
This amazing composite photo gives a scrollable, zoomable high-resolution view of 1938 San Francisco
June 11, 2013 |
By Colin Schultz
The Vibrant Patterns of Portuguese Men-of-War
Beachgoers despise the stinging animals, but photographer Aaron Ansarov finds surreal beauty in them
June 10, 2013 |
By Megan Gambino
The Amazing Grace of Underwater Portraits
Photographer Henrik Sorensen takes a fluid approach to the body in motion
June 2013 |
By Paul Bisceglio
Amazing Sea Butterflies Are the Ocean’s Canary in the Coal Mine
These delicate and stunning creatures are offering Smithsonian scientists a warning sign for the world's waters turning more acidic
May 14, 2013 |
By Hannah Waters
This App Uses Audio to Guide Blind Photographers
While blind people can't enjoy photographs the same way sighted people do, that doesn't mean they don't want to take them
May 10, 2013 |
By Rose Eveleth
28-Year Satellite Time-Lapse Shows Exactly What We’re Doing to Our Planet
28 years in just a few seconds, as seen from space
May 09, 2013 |
By Colin Schultz
Feel What It’s Like to Live on an Antarctic Icebreaker for Two Months
In February 2013 Cassandra Brooks, a marine scientist with Stanford University, landed at McMurdo Station, a U.S. research station on the shores of Antarctica’s Ross Sea. For two months she worked on a ship, the icebreaker Nathaniel B. Palmer, cruising through the Antarctic sea. Brooks documented her life on the ship for National Geographic, and now she’s [...]
May 07, 2013 |
By Colin Schultz
This Camera Looks at the World Through an Insect’s Eyes
With 180 individual lenses, this new camera mimics an insect's compound eye
May 02, 2013 |
By Colin Schultz
PHOTOS: The Mind-Blowing, Floating, Unmanned Scientific Laboratory
Wave Gliders are about to make scientific exploration a lot cheaper and safer
May 2013 |
By Joseph Stromberg
Before There Was Photoshop, These Photographers Knew How to Manipulate an Image
Jerry Uelsmann and other artists manually blended negatives to produce dreamlike sequences
May 2013 |
By Paul Bisceglio
Saturn’s Mysterious Hexagon Is a Raging Hurricane
At the heart of Saturn's hexagon, a giant hurricane
April 30, 2013 |
By Colin Schultz
The Strange Beauty of David Maisel’s Aerial Photographs
A new book shows how the photographer creates startling images of open-pit mines, evaporation ponds and other sites of environmental degradation
April 26, 2013 |
By Megan Gambino
Before and After: America’s Environmental History
For the EPA's State of the Environment Photography Project, people are returning to sites photographed in the 1970s. They are snapping the scenes yet again—to document any changes in the landscape
April 22, 2013 |
By Marina Koren
Intriguing Science Art From the University of Wisconsin
From a fish's dyed nerves to vapor strewn across the planet, images submitted to a contest at the university offer new perspectives of the natural world
April 19, 2013 |
By Megan Gambino
This Is the Coolest Way to Watch the Northern Lights (Without Going to the Arctic)
Pan and scroll your way around the northern lights
April 15, 2013 |
By Colin Schultz
When The Gap Was Everywhere
Through staged fashion shoots, an artists' collective critiqued the ascendant sportswear retailer
April 11, 2013 |
By Emily Spivack
This New App Lets You Hide Secret Messages in Your Facebook Photos
Tweet-length password-protected messages, hidden within seemingly innocuous Facebook photos
April 10, 2013 |
By Colin Schultz
