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A person holding their smartphone in front of their face to take a selfie

Selfies have changed our perception of what we look like. Here’s why.

By Abby Ferguson

a shepherd dog shakes water off its head on a black background

19 charming winners from the Dog Photography Awards

By Popular Science Team

two leopards fighting in dirt

14 dramatic moments from the 2024 Nature’s Best Photo Awards

By Popular Science Team

storm clouds and a rainbow form over narrow islands. a lighthouse

10 striking snapshots from the Weather Photographer of the Year awards

By Popular Science Team

purple bubbles on stick-like thing

Invisible to the naked eye: 15 gorgeous images captured under a microscope

By Popular Science Team

two rocks in foreground, milky way in background

12 breathtaking images from the 2024 Astrophotography Prize Photographer of the Year awards

By Popular Science Team

a penguin looks at the camera while swimming in icy waters

14 soaring and stunning images from 2024 Bird Photographer of the Year awards

By Popular Science Team

the moment a jaguar delivers a fatal bite to the head of a caiman in a muddy river.

11 unforgettable scenes from the Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards

By Popular Science Team

The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2024 SCOTT FRIER Ocean Shores United States Title: Nagging is a Universal Concept Description: I liked this image as It reminds me of the old TV commercial for Maxell audio cassette tapes called: "Blown Away Guy". On safari in Serengeti National Park in Tanzania we hung around a Kopji of rocks because there were lion cubs being nursed when this action happened. I was just lucky enough to catch it. I have this image printed and hung on a wall of my home, everybody who sees it laughs at it. One of those people mentioned that I should entered it in this contest so here it is. Animal: Lion & Lioness Location of shot: Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

24 silly wildlife photos to brighten your day

By Popular Science Team

A Barred Owl hangs upside down from a thin tree branch, its body horizontal, its face turned and looking at the camera. Above it hangs a squirrel on a branch. Its head is nearly completely severed and is held in the owl’s talons. Its fur is bloodied.

Mating, murder, and parenting: The complex lives of birds on display in 2024 Audubon Photography Awards

By Popular Science Team

a small panda in the woods

Glorious nature photographs honor the impact of Jane Goodall

By Popular Science Team

three images: a cheetah attacking a baby zebra, a gorilla mom holding her baby's hand, an orca swimming amongst fish

18 beautiful and jarring wildlife photos that remind us nature is fierce

By Popular Science Team

two brown bear cubs with their mouths open looking at each other

10 delightfully silly, never-before-seen images from Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards

By Popular Science Team

a walrus lays on the cement in front of boats at night

Urban walrus and fighting frogs: 12 charming images from the British Wildlife Photography Awards

By Popular Science Team

a jaguar bites the head of a caiman with its mouth open

12 wildlife photos showing the metal, serene, and cheeky side of nature

By Popular Science Team

A silhouette of a rocket passes in front of the moon

13 award-winning photographs that showcase Earth’s wonders

By Popular Science Team

Check out some of the past year’s best close-up photography

Check out some of the past year’s best close-up photography

Manatee in a patch of sunlight

Sea the beauty of the world’s oceans with these 12 award-worthy photos

By Popular Science Team

Iridescent Running Chicken Nebula with glowing gases and stars

31 award-winning astronomy photos: From fiery horizons to whimsical auroras

By Annie Colbert

Possum eating on a doorstep

11 jaw-dropping photos of marsupials, mushrooms, and more

By Popular Science Team

Dead humback whale on beach from aerial view

Dead whales and dinosaur eggs: 7 fascinating images by researchers

By Popular Science Team

A desktop computer monitor with a waterfront scene on the screen.

Your computer monitor’s colors look bad because you haven’t calibrated them

full venus flytrap on black background

These meat-eating plants are masters of deception

By Ali Blumenthal, Ellen Airhart

JWST composite image of barred spiral galaxy NGC 5068, showing its core and part of a spiral arm. Clumps and filaments of dust, represented in a mossy green color, form an almost skeletal structure that follow the twist of the galaxy and its spiral arm.

15 remarkable JWST images that reveal the wonders of our vast universe

A woman with black hair wearing a white shirt and standing in front of a body of water while looking very confused at her phone.

Apple is killing ‘My Photo Stream.’ Should you care?

A green adult L. heckscheri frog sits amid some rocks and fungus.

Check out some of the weirdest warty frogs in North America

By Popular Science Team

A Northern Hawk Owl looks directly into the camera as it perches at the tip of a frost-covered tree. Dark pine cones on the bare branches stand out against a white background, mirroring the pattern of the owl’s dark breast feathers.

Owls, puffins, and even city pigeons glam it up in winning bird photos

By Maddi Langweil

A person holding an empty photo frame up against a seaside cliff landscape, showing how an AI image extender can add pixels beyond the edge of an original photo.

How to use AI to expand the background of any image

Screenshot of photo editing in Adobe Lightroom Classic

5 AI tools in Adobe Lightroom Classic to boost your photo editing

A person typing on a laptop and editing on photoshop.

5 AI-powered Photoshop tools to subtly—or dramatically—alter your images

the moon over the red plateaus of the Petrified Forest National Park

The 12 most underrated national parks in the US

By Popular Science Team

M87 black hole Event Horizon Telescope image sharpened by AI with PRIMO algorithm. The glowing event horizon is now clearer and thinner and the black hole at the center darker.

You saw the first image of a black hole. Now see it better with AI.

By Purbita Saha

Adobe built its Firefly AI art generator to avoid bias and copyright issues

Adobe built its Firefly AI art generator to avoid bias and copyright issues

By Harry Guinness

A winning picture of mutated pollen grains, colorized, from the Koch Institute Image Awards.

Under a microscope, mouse colons and mutant pollen become art

By Popular Science Team

WR 145 star in pre-supernova state with white bright core and red and purple dust and matter clouding around it. Taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

Space Telescope

James Webb Space Telescope captures the beauty of a rare, violent phenomena

By Purbita Saha

three MysteryVibe products

These sex toys are designed to heal, one orgasm at a time

By Charlie Surbey, Sandra Gutierrez G.

Pitcher plant with two dead spotted salamanders captured for photography awards

13 otherworldly photos that were actually taken on Earth

By Popular Science Team

Hippo with its jaws open behind a heron in the water

These might be the funniest animal photos you’ve seen this year

By Popular Science Team

A person holding a black Android phone, possibly setting it to file transfer mode to back up their photos to their laptop.

The best ways to transfer photos from an Android to a computer

A SpaceX rocket flies above a Florida swamp in June.

Trash-eating elephants, a lava landscaper, and 8 more of this year’s best NatGeo photos

By Popular Science Team

People taking photos of glowing lava on Cape Verde

These islanders live and thrive alongside lava

By Cris Toala Olivares

A person in the distance walks through fields of bright red, orange, and yellow leaves

The arctic tundra’s fall foliage is as vibrant as it is short-lived

By Helen Bradshaw

Example of golden ratio in photography

Learn the golden rules of photography (before you break them)

By Harry Guinness/Popular Photography

Your smartphone camera has great hidden features—here’s how to find them

Your smartphone camera has great hidden features—here’s how to find them

By Jeff Carlson / Popular Photography

side by side comparison of dog photo with and without background

4 free apps that remove photo backgrounds with little fuss

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

How AI is helping you edit photos

How AI is helping you edit photos

By Jeff Carlson / Popular Photography

A person wearing a jean jacket and posting multiple photos to their Instagram story at once on an iPhon.

The fastest way to post multiple Instagram story pics at once

By John Kennedy

Parasitic fungi bursting from a fly's back in macro

These thoughtful nature images were captured by scientists in action

By Popular Science Team

From lions to waterfalls, here are some of the year’s best nature photos

From lions to waterfalls, here are some of the year’s best nature photos

By Marissa Wu / Popular Photography

Future LEDs could be made with fish scales

Future LEDs could be made with fish scales

By Dan Bracaglia / Popular Photography

Ring galaxy with two small spiral galaxies to the left in red, blue, and yellow in a James Webb Space Telescope composite image

Space Telescope

JWST’s latest snap captures the glimmering antics of the Cartwheel Galaxy

By Purbita Saha

How to take cool photos of cars

How to take cool photos of cars

By Mark Elias / Popular Photography

It’s not just you—everyone hates Instagram now. Here’s why.

It’s not just you—everyone hates Instagram now. Here’s why.

By Harry Guinness

A beginner’s guide to iPhone bird photography

A beginner’s guide to iPhone bird photography

By Marissa Wu / Popular Photography

Photo of woman outdoors on bright day

How to take good photos in bright sunlight

By Harry Guinness/Popular Photography

The James Webb Space Telescope’s first image shows the universe in a new light

Space Telescope

The James Webb Space Telescope’s first image shows the universe in a new light

By Maria Parazo Rose

Sort your entire photo library with this AI

Sort your entire photo library with this AI

By Jeff Carlson / Popular Photography

Landscape photo of Yosemite National Park

A photographer’s guide to respectfully enjoying a national park

By Marissa Wu / Popular Photography

Taking mobile portrait outside of a person holding two ice cream cones.

Simple tricks for taking better outdoor portrait photos with your phone

By Harry Guinness/Popular Photography

Starfish spawning in water

8 award-winning photos of nature’s stranger things

By Stephanie Stone

A demonstration of "lens-less" photography.

Tokyo researchers developed a novel lensless camera

By Marissa Wu / Popular Photography

Image of an app that digitizes photos.

How to turn your phone into a small-photo scanner

By Dan Bracaglia / Popular Photography

Caribbean flamingo chick tucked into the pink feathers on the back of its parent

Before they grow into splendor, flamingos are just awkward floofs

By Claudio Contreras Koob and Martha A. Salazar

Jupiter’s largest moon wrestles for attention with its Big Red Spot

Jupiter’s largest moon wrestles for attention with its Big Red Spot

By Sara Kiley Watson