Imaging

Historical documents considered lost to the ravages of time—like crumbling parchment thousands of years old or…

A lot of amazing technologies developed at universities or corporate R&D labs never see the light of day because…

The magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines in hospitals are great at creating pictures of the human body. For…

Generally, if scientists want to see how a living thing functions in high resolution, they need to slice it into…

This grainy black-and-white image may not look like much, but it’s a record-breaker. A radar scan acquired by…

Do not adjust your monitor. This is a perfectly normal forest, but it happens to be the view that’s seen through the…

A new ultrasound technique that uses tiny micro-bubbles to help improve the contrast of its images is capable of…

Ever wondered how your own selfies compare against the internet’s vast amount of artistically crafted…

For many years scientists have been trying to find a way to measure the pressure in a patient’s brain without having…

You already know that a penis has arteries to bring blood to its erectile tissues, and veins that take the blood…

Before you head off into the weekend, take a second to behold San Francisco as seen from Landsat 8, moving high…

Researchers raise alarms about unknown health risks of GE’s Omniscan and Bayer’s Magnevist, drugs injected to get…

Diagnosis is hard. Especially when it comes to joint injuries. Doctors can make educated guesses based on your…

Human flesh is opaque. As any good dictionary will tell you, that means it has the quality of "not transmitting…

Bubbles in the blood may sound like a bad idea—but if they're small, they can actually prove useful instead of…

Tens of thousands of photons go into making up each pixel in your standard cat photo. That's because existing…

The quality of commercial space-based imagery is about to take a quantum leap forward with yesterday's successful…

In mid-June, the U.S. government relaxed its previously strict rules on high-definition satellite imaging, allowing…

Did you guys know there is a Gizmodo subdomain where you can go for all things photographic? Yep! It's called Reframe

The stronger an MRI machine's magnetic field is, the better image resolution and refresh rates it is able to…