The stories of science and of photography are certain to be intertwined throughout the twenty-first century. In this Spotlight, we invite you to learn about the forms of photography that ...

A machine that helped with the calculations behind the first moon landing has been acquired by a Scottish museum. With the ...

In the traditional practice of photography, the darkroom is a sacred space. Designed to accommodate the light-sensitive process of developing a photograph, darkrooms are nurseries for snapshots in ...

In 1839, a chemist named Louis Daguerre announced to the French Academy of Sciences that he had perfected a photographic imaging technology that could be used on a large scale and was reproducible.

Magic, art or science? Film photography blurs the lines between these categories and creates permanent images from nothing but light and chemicals. This process feels like magic, even when you do it ...

Participants made their own hand-held camera obscura and photograms Saturday during an event Saturday at the Sordoni Art Gallery in Wilkes-Barre that explored the science behind photography. The ca… ...

In his new book, "Horizons: The Global Origins of Modern Science" (Mariner Books, 2022), James Poskett, a historian of science and technology at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom ...

Wiltshire, Sir William Henry Fox Talbot, known as the father of modern photography, was a British visionary whose name is etched in the annals. He passed away on September 17, 1877. In 1833, while ...

The Science Photographer of the Year competition aims to showcase the best photos across science, with the shortlisted entries to be exhibited in London from October 7 until January 5 of next year.