A very up-close look at the insect
By Laura Geggel
Posted 12.07.2012 at 11:56 am
Really! "Earth As Art," a free e-book from NASA, shows off surreal photos of Earth with light taken outside the visible spectrum. Here are 19 of our favorites.
It's that time of the year again! What time? Oh, it's the time to drop thousands of dollars on the best photography gear on the planet. It's a fun time, a festive time, a time for reflection and spending time with family and also going into debt to buy $3,500 cameras and thousand-dollar lenses and backpacks and flash setups and so much more. But what to buy? Pop Photo rounded up the best photography gear of 2012 for your perusal in this year's Pop Awards. Check out the winners here.
The goofy Samsung Galaxy Camera--a point-and-shoot with a 4.8-inch touchscreen and a full version of Android--came out of nowhere and actually impressed us. The interface is fast and efficient for changing settings, the screen is great, and the camera has some pretty decent optics to book (21x optical zoom lens, 16MP CMOS sensor). And we just got an email from AT&T telling us the camera will cost $499.99, either with or without a 4G data plan. Yoooouch. That's even more than the $450 Canon S110, the reigning champ of advanced compacts. We'll have a full review soon so you can see if it's worth it.
Including cellphones charged by fire, an airport under water, and more
Don Pettit is carried after spending 191 days on the International Space Station.
By Page Grossman
Posted 10.29.2012 at 10:00 am
Including a pepper-spraying iPhone, an illustrated guide to eating a Triceratops, and more
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Plus: A meteor soaring over California, a beautiful aerial view of Greenland's coast, an artist going fully digital, and more amazing photos and illustrations.
Our friends at Pop Photo talked to Connie Zhou, who took absolutely stunning photos of what might seem horribly boring: Google's server centers. Zhou is typically an architectural photographer, and one day got an offer from Google to come take photos of places never seen before--though they have been the subject of some criticism. Check out the story here.
Every year, Nikon's Small World contest rounds up the best in microscopic images, taken by scientists and artists alike. Here are our 11 favorites from this year.
A social media life-vest, a building shaped like a bad acid trip, an abstract look at volcanoes, and more of our favorite images from this week
The Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition showcases awe-inspiring science photos that capture everything from stargazers to deep space. A few competitors aren't even old enough to drive.
A mind-bending videogame, shoes with GPS, a charming liliger cub, and more of our favorite images from this week
This 1951 PopSci article offers a handy guide to photographing cats. I can haz clickclickclick?
By Elbert Chu
Posted 09.07.2012 at 9:34 am
The first direct brain-machine interface, developed in the 1990s, connected a computer to a rat. By 2003, scientists had mostly replaced rats with nonhuman primates. One of which is Jianhui, an eight-year-old rhesus macaque at Zhejiang University in eastern China.
