From a hummingbird in flight to up-close encounters with parasites and their hosts, these images will spark the curiosity ...

NASA and theU.S. Geological Survey (USGS) have joined forces in a groundbreaking initiative to map critical minerals in the ...

While the National Science Foundation initially released only a couple of images and a brief video clip of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s first imagery, more images and videos taken using the ...

By leveraging the concept of chirality, or the difference of a shape from its mirror image, EPFL scientists have engineered an optical metasurface that controls light to yield a simple and versatile ...

NASA's new "CODEX" telescope has snapped its first photos of the sun's outer atmosphere, revealing previously imperceptible ...

Morphed images used in the experiment. Subjects were shown a series of images and given 1.25 seconds to respond and rate according to subjective assessment of attractiveness.

Like science itself, the way of funding it must also progress. Correction (November 20th 2023): A previous version of this article said that Edwin Hubble was supported by the Carnegie Foundation.

Dr Wiener’s team used images from a 60,000-image data set, where each image had been judged on its memorability (a man with flowers in his beard: memorable. Foliage: less so).

Generative-AI technologies can create convincing scientific data with ease — publishers and integrity specialists fear a torrent of faked science.

And AI-generated images – from diagrams to microscopy imagery – are increasingly difficult to identify. Specialists are concerned about "a torrent of faked science" as a result, said Nature .