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How cloud-seeding could help us predict when it will snow

Environment

How cloud-seeding could help us predict when it will snow

These brilliant images show how researchers in Switzerland are using weather-modification techniques to understand how ice crystals form in clouds, an important and poorly understood factor in climate and weather models

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Nuke Image Round

Physics

Hypnotic art has its roots in the terrifying reality of nuclear bombs

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Rhiannon Adam, United Kingdom, Finalist, Professional competition, Creative, Sony World Photography Awards 2025

Space

Eerie image of a space-bound rocket among photo contest finalists

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Smiling-Damselfly-?Benjamin_Salb This is a stacked image of a damselfly I encountered on an early morning macro outing this spring. The expression of the damselfly is remarkable, and the large pseudopupil area gives it an almost cartoonish quality. This is my favorite damselfly capture to date.

Life

Incredible close-up images of insects scoop photo contest honours

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Fly Agaric (detail) ? Marshmallow Laser Feast

Life

Striking artworks reveal the beauty of mushrooms and other soil life

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Images that capture our timeless obsession with the moon

Images that capture our timeless obsession with the moon

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A natural ice cave formed by glacial retreat, at the edge of a moraine.

Environment

Chilling images reveal melting ice worlds

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Franconian Trumpeter.

Life

Fancy pigeons flaunt their feathers in this striking photo series

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Incredible images show the moment SpaceX's Starship exploded

Space

Incredible images show the moment SpaceX's Starship exploded

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The Curiosity rover faced a five-mile (eight-kilometer) trek from its landing site to the foothills of Aeolis Mons, but driving across bedrock eroded into sharp points was destroying its wheels. In early 2014, the mission directed the rover across a sand drift at Dingo Gap, leaving behind the jagged bedrock for kinder, gravel-filled valley bottoms.

Space

Extraordinary images reveal the mysteries of Mars

From windswept craters to frigid ice caps, explore Martian landscapes through the eyes of NASA’s orbiters, probes and rovers

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Earth

Incredible images tell the tale of the world’s most prized marble

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Health

Visualising a virus: How our covers captured an unfolding crisis

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Earth

Remarkable images capture the diversity of Earth's ice formations

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Life

See the world in close-up in these intricate images of nature

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