Scientists Make Smartphone App That Performs Full-Body Motion Capture

Researchers have developed a smartphone app that captures full-body motion without the need for special cameras or expensive equipment. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-10-31 17:44

Scientists Made an AI Model That Beats CAPTCHAs Every Single Time

Researchers have made an AI bot capable of beating image-based CAPTCHAs 100 percent of the time, according to a new scientific paper. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-9-30 14:29

Scientists Photograph Rare Deep Sea Species Including a ‘Casper Octopus’ and ‘Spaghetti Monsters’

Scientists have photographed 20 never-before-seen species that were discovered during a deep sea expedition and captured the first-ever footage of a rare squid. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-9-3 15:04

Scientists Discovered a Way to Make Your Batteries Survive Way Longer

Scientists at the SLAC-Stanford Battery Center in Menlo Park, California, have found a surprising way to improve lithium-ion battery lifespan by 50%. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-9-3 16:53

Scientists Reconstruct Collapsed Antarctic Glaciers Using 1960s Aerial Photos

The Larsen Ice Shelf in Antarctica has been breaking for decades, but 2002's Larsen B collapse was especially dramatic. After being stable for at least 10,000 years, a large portion of the shelf broke apart, with the consequences felt around the entire planet. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-7-9 23:49

Scientists Capture Never-Before-Seen Footage of Deep-Sea Squid Cradling Huge Eggs

Scientists have captured incredible footage of a deep-sea mother squid clutching dozens of unusually huge eggs.

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2024-6-19 17:00

Scientists Have Made the Thinnest Lens Ever at Just 3 Atoms Thick

Scientists have created the thinnest optical lens ever made for camera systems. At just three atoms thick, the researchers believe it will be especially useful for future wearables like the now defunct Google Glass or Meta's RayBan smart glasses. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-6-4 20:18

Scientists Photograph Orangutan Treating Wound with Medicinal Plant in World-First Observation

Scientists photographed an orangutan treating a large wound on its cheek with a medicinal plant in world-first images.

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2024-5-30 19:19

Scientists Think They’ve Captured First-Ever Footage of a Colossal Squid Baby

Scientists think they may have captured a colossal squid baby on camera -- potentially making it the first-ever footage of the elusive creature in the wild. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-5-30 22:41

Scientists Develop Technique For Recovering Old Daguerreotype Photos

Researchers have developed a new technique for salvaging tarnished 19th-century daguerreotype photographs and revealing images that otherwise "seemed lost forever." [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-4-26 19:01

Scientists Photograph 50 Never-Before-Seen Deep Sea Species

These photos show never-before-seen underwater creatures living within the Pacific Ocean deep off Chile's coastline.

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2024-4-13 20:06

Scientists Find Supernova That Wowed Ancient Astronomers In 12th Century

In 1181, a supernova explosion appeared in the night sky for 185 days. Historical records show that the supernova, which some witnesses said looked like a "temporary star," shined as bright as Saturn in the constellation Cassiopeia. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-3-29 00:53

Scientists Invent World’s Fastest Camera That Shoots 156.3 Trillion Frames Per Second

A high-end mirrorless camera can shoot over 100 frames per second (FPS) but it pales in comparison to a camera system researchers in Canada have made that can shoot up to 156.3 trillion FPS. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-3-27 16:06

Scientists Photograph Pink ‘Barbie Pigs’ Among New Species in Pacific Ocean

Scientists photographed never-before-seen underwater species including pink "Barbie Pigs" during a deep-sea expedition.

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2024-3-26 18:09

Scientists Photograph New Species of Beetle That Was Mistaken for Bird Poo

Scientists have shared the first-ever photographs of a newly discovered species of beetle that was almost mistaken for bird poo. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-3-23 18:50

Scientists Photograph Never-Before-Seen ‘Living Magic Carpet’ Worm in Ocean

Scientists have photographed a never-before-seen deep-sea worm species that moves just like a "living magic carpet."

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2024-3-12 20:38

Scientists Capture Eerie Photos of Mysterious Elephant Burial

Scientists captured eerie photos of a mysterious elephant burial -- that revealed how animals mourn and bury their dead in a poignantly similar way to humans. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-3-6 17:20

Scientists Photograph Hundreds of Never-Before-Seen Deep Sea Species

Scientists have photographed more than 100 never-before-seen species that were discovered during a deep-sea expedition.

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2024-2-23 19:06

Scientists Attach Cameras to Polar Bears and Discover They’re Starving

Scientists attached cameras to polar bears and the shocking footage revealed that the animals are starving due to the rapidly shrinking sea ice. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-2-14 19:52

Scientists Create Camera That Shows How Animals See Color

It's well understood that animals see differently from us humans, but visualizing those differences has proved challenging. However, a group of scientists from the UK and the US have developed a camera system that can accurately record animal-perceived photos and videos. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-1-24 01:17

Scientists Film Plants ‘Talking’ to Each Other in Groundbreaking Footage

Scientists have filmed neighboring plants "chatting" and receiving warning messages from each other in groundbreaking footage. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-1-17 20:28

Scientists Took 11,000 Photos of Ants’ Faces to Reveal Secrets of Survival

Scientists took over 11,000 photos of ants to reveal how the different patterns and textures on their faces could be the secret behind their survival as a species. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-1-8 19:43

Scientists Say AI-Generated White Faces are More Realistic Than Photos

Researchers have found that artificial intelligence (AI) generated white faces are "more realistic" than actual human faces in photos. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2023-11-14 15:57

Scientists Discover the Most Distant Black Hole Ever Seen in X-rays

By combining data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered the most distant black hole ever detected in X-rays. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2023-11-7 02:25

Scientists Reveal First-Ever Footage of Lone Wolf Hunting and Killing a Seal

Scientists have revealed what is likely to be the first-ever footage of a single wolf hunting and killing a seal.

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2023-11-3 17:46

Scientists Say Selfies Fall into Five Different Categories

Scientists studied 1,001 selfies to learn how people use them to communicate and concluded that these photos can be classified into five distinct categories: "aesthetics," "imagination," "trait," "state," and "theory of mind." [Read More] petapixel.com »

2023-11-2 22:13

Scientists Create Highest-Res Single-Photon Camera With 400,000 Pixels

New details have emerged about the world's highest-resolution single-photon super conducting camera. The camera has been developed by research team at the United States Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). [Read More] petapixel.com »

2023-10-26 21:00

Scientists Could Use Lenses to Make Roads on the Moon

New research has found that humans could turn lunar dirt into smooth, clean roads on the moon -- all with the help of a giant lens. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2023-10-15 22:32

First Black Hole Ever Photographed is Spinning, Scientists Confirm

Analyzing more than two decades of observational data collected by more than 20 telescopes, an international team of scientists says that the black hole at the center of the nearby M87 galaxy is spinning. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2023-9-29 00:55

Scientists Capture Close-Up Footage of a Deep-Sea Transparent Glass Squid

Researchers on board the NOAA ship Okeanos Explorer have captured gorgeous footage of what is known as a glass squid. While this creature isn't rare, close-up views of it like this truly highlight its beauty. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2023-8-19 20:46

How Scientists Bring Webb’s Images to Life in Beautiful Color

The James Webb Space Telescope YouTube channel released a fascinating new video this week that explains how Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) science visuals developers Joe DePasquale and Alyssa Pagan transform Webb's black-and-white image data into full-color composites. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2023-8-12 21:29

Scientists Explain Cosmic ‘Question Mark’ That Puzzled the Internet

The James Webb Space Telescope recently photographed the Herbig-Haro 46/47, a pair of newly forming stars. The beautiful composite is vast and full of rich detail, including a cosmic question mark. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2023-8-10 00:38

Scientists Use AI to Read Mouse’s Brain and Reconstruct Movie Clip It’s Watching

Scientists used artificial intelligence (AI) to decode a mouse's brain signals as it was watching a film and accurately reproduce the movie clip it was seeing. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2023-5-4 21:56

Scientists Explain Why People Love to Take Selfies

Scientists have figured out why people like to take selfies -- and it's not necessarily to do with vanity.

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2023-4-29 20:26

Scientists Use AI to Enhance First-Ever Photo of Black Hole

A team of researchers has developed a machine-learning technique to give the first-ever image of a supermassive black hole a new, sharper look. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2023-4-15 23:52

Scientists Have Created a Huge 5.7-Terapixel Global Image of Mars

A group at Caltech's Bruce Murray Laboratory for Planetary Visualization has unveiled a 5.7-terapixel global image of Mars. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2023-4-7 23:33

Scientists are Fighting a Destructive Bug with Targeted Pesticide Drone Strikes

Scientists in the Maldives are fighting a particularly devastating species of caterpillar by using targeted pesticide drone strikes, evolving a previously extremely manual and imprecise method of dealing with the problem. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2023-3-4 23:33

Scientists Photograph Penguins Displaying Signs of Self-Awareness

Scientists have recorded penguins examining themselves in a mirror while displaying signs of self-awareness.

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2022-12-29 15:36

Scientists Create Battery-Free Underwater Camera Powered by Sound

A group of scientists has developed a battery-free, wireless underwater camera that is powered by sound and is around 100,000 times more energy-efficient than other undersea cameras. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2022-9-27 18:58

Scientists Reveal New Info on ‘Giant Jets’ of Lightning in the Atmosphere

Thanks to new 3D radio and optical mapping, scientists have published more information on a phenomenon called a "gigantic jet," which is a massive electrical discharge that exits the top of a thunderstorm and connects with the lower edge of space. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2022-8-11 20:32

Scientists Capture Footage of a Neutron Star Merger for the First Time

Scientists have, for the first time, recorded a millimeter-wavelength light explosion caused by the merging of a neutron star with another star. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2022-8-5 19:10

Scientists Develop a More Efficient LED Made from Fish Scales

Scientists from the Nagoya Institute of Technology (NITech) have developed a simple, fast, and energy-efficient method to create a carbon nanostructure made from fish scales that results in a vastly more efficient LED. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2022-8-2 19:25

Scientists Baffled by Strange Holes on Seafloor That Look ‘Human-Made’

Scientists have discovered a series of mysterious and seemingly "human-made" holes 1.6 miles (2,540m) below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean -- holes that have left them "stumped" for answers. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2022-7-29 20:15

Scientists Mimic a Camera with Ear-Based Sonar to Image a Human Face

Traditionally, camera-based technology has been used to track facial movements in real-time. But now, researchers at Cornell University have developed a wearable earphone device -- or "earable" -- that bounces sound off of a human's cheeks and transforms the echoes into an avatar of that person’s entire moving face. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2022-7-23 22:34

Scientists Develop an Cheap Way for Any Camera to See Infrared Colors

Scientists from Tel Aviv University (TAU) have developed a camera system that can recognize the colors of the infrared spectrum that doesn't require the converting to the visible spectrum after the fact, a normally costly and time-consuming process. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2022-6-28 20:25

Scientists Use Cameras to Recreate Sounds by ‘Seeing’ Vibrations

A dual-shutter vibration-sensing system developed by Carnegie Mellion University (CMU) researchers uses standard, ordinary cameras to see sound vibrations with such precision that it can reconstruct the music made by a single instrument out of a band. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2022-6-23 22:32

Scientists Capture Fastest Growing Black Hole in the Universe

An international team of researchers believe they have discovered the fastest-growing black hole of the past nine billion years. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2022-6-17 19:07

Scientists Capture Brand-New Deep-Sea Jellyfish Species on Camera

Scientists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute have captured stunning footage of a new species of deep-sea jellyfish. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2022-4-26 22:50

NASA's Parker Solar Probe captures the first visible light images of Venus' surface

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has captured its first visible light photos of the surface of Venus from space. Venus, the third brightest object in the sky as viewed from Earth, is shrouded in thick clouds, making it difficult to capture images of the planet's surface. dpreview.com »

2022-2-16 20:15

Scientists Invent a Camera That Can See Through or Around Anything

Researchers from Northwestern’s Engineering department have invented a new high-resolution camera that can see around corners and through objects — even skin, fog, or a human skull. The process is called synthetic wavelength holography, and it’s a new method that works by indirectly scattering light onto hidden objects, which then scatters again and travels back […] petapixel.com »

2021-11-20 21:22