Throughout the year, photographers have managed to capture stunning and shocking images - from extraordinary political moments to natural wonders. Here we take a look back at this year in pictures.

One figure widely quoted by pest control companies: There are 1,000 pounds of termites for every human on Earth. If you like big numbers, the 2018 report is delicious reading. Recently ...

Artificial intelligence tools can fabricate entirely new images and videos. But they can now also make much smaller tweaks by inserting A.I. elements into genuine photographs, further blurring the ...

(NASA) The São Francisco River in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. (NASA) "How would you not want to take pictures and try and share that with the rest of humanity?" NASA astronaut Matt Dominick ...

A Dec. 21 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) includes an image that appears to show a Truth Social post from President-elect Donald Trump. “Let me clear something up right now ...

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a new image compression algorithm is proposed in this paper. First, a double-layer non-uniform partition algorithm is proposed, which analyzes the texture complexity of image blocks and performs ...

Scroll on to see some of 2024's most memorable moments. NASA astronaut Don Pettit shared this image in November, saying, "Starlink satellites look like a miniature version of the monolith from ...

A Dec. 19 Threads post (direct link, archive link) shows what appears to be an X post from Elon Musk that includes an image of him sitting at the president's desk in the Oval Office while ...

(Nur Kayat's Images/Canva) The human brain is a beast when it comes to pure analytical power. Its 80-odd-billion neurons form trillions of connections grouped in ways that allow us to feel, imagine, ...

After Chrystia Freeland's sudden and unexpected resignation from the Trudeau cabinet earlier this week, it seemed clear that the NDP would vote non-confidence in the government, triggering an ...