It’s a fraught thing, selfie-taking. One moment you’re thinking of yourself as more or less human-looking, and…

Pretty Scientific is a new Gizmodo series where we explore how the best images in science were created and why.

Remember when we told you to look at the Moon? Some folks really looked, and they were blown away. Rightfully so.

Zoom in close on the center of the picture above, and you can spot something you perhaps never thought you’d be able…

For months, cryptic teases and rampant rumors have indicated that Magic Leap was planning some sort of big reveal…

Ever wonder why your photos never turn out as amazing those posted by your favorite Instagrammer? There’s probably a…

Ever had the feeling your high-resolution desktop wallpaper isn’t looking quite as fantastic as you thought it…

Here’s what we know.

So writer Nick Spencer had a bad idea for Captain America. And Marvel had the worse idea by letting it happen. But,…

Want to inject some color to your photographs in a hurry? Well, new software can take an alarmingly good guess at…

As we enter Star Trek’s fiftieth year, it’s a good time to look back on the early days of the show. Gerald Gurian…

A volcano spewing ash, magical forest fireflies, and a monkey who feels just like we all do about winter weather.…

Whether you’re gasping at the beauty of Earth or the wonder of modern-day architecture (or both), there may well be…

While it’s easy to forget just how many things are actually in the public domain, the New York Public Library is…

Google’s started experimenting with saving pictures from your image searches in Chrome or Safari on mobile devices.…

We all like to think we can spot a real from a fake. But a new study by researchers from the the Federal University…

You kids and your #nofilter tags. Everything’s filtered! The engineer who built your camera made dozens of decisions…

Using solarization, you can create a world of opposites, where darks are light, and lights are dark. For this week’s …

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, or more commonly, it’s shaped and defined by cultural standards that are…