French physicist Gabriel Lippmann pioneered color photography and snagged the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physics for his efforts. But according to a recent paper published in the Proceedings of the National ...

Multispectral imaging, or photography using wavelengths other than those in ordinary visible light, has various applications ranging from earth observation to forgery detection in art. For example, ...

When you take a picture with your smartphone (or any camera, really), you're trusting it to reproduce the colors in front of you in the most visually pleasing way. For some, "visually pleasing" can be ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- Researchers at Duke University have demonstrated photodetectors that could span an unprecedented range of light frequencies by using on-chip spectral filters created by tailored ...

From top to bottom: Pottery sherd, Tel Arad, Israel; Infrared image of sherd; Text, revealed(Courtesy the Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University (photographer ...

The Amazon’s destruction in everyday color is terrible enough. But a special photographic method reveals the true toll of mining, logging, and other human activities on the world’s largest rainforest.

A project at South Korea's Institute for Basic Science (IBS) has developed a perovskite-based camera with a design mimicking the eye of a bird. Published in Science Robotics, the project's findings ...

Ancient Nubian civilizations practiced something that might shock modern sensibilities - they tattooed the faces of infants and toddlers as young as seven months old. A new study using advanced ...

Burnt Forest, Amazonas by Richard Mosse. 2020. Image: © Richard Mosse. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. Paradoxically, the technology ...