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Majestic photographs of the world's major telescopes

18 January 2023

Photographer Julian Abrams' new project, Everything Beautiful Is Far Away, celebrates some key telescopes from around the world – and the impressive structures that house them

Researchers at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory are nearly done with the LSST Camera, the world's largest digital camera ever built for astronomy. Roughly the size of a small car and weighing in at three tons, the camera features a five-foot wide front lens and a 3,200 megapixel sensor that will be cooled to -100??C to reduce noise. Once complete and in place atop the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Simonyi Survey Telescope in Chile, the camera will survey the southern night sky for a decade, creating a trove of data that scientists will pore over to better understand some of the universe's biggest mysteries, including the nature of dark energy and dark matter. (Jacqueline Ramseyer Orrell/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Astronomers have unveiled the world’s largest digital camera

26 October 2022

The world’s largest digital camera for astronomy is taller than a car, has as many pixels as 266 iPhones and will, over the course of the next 10 years, help researchers study billions of galaxies

See the murky world of vampire appliances captured on camera

30 March 2022

At night a subtle force drains power in most of our homes. We’re talking devices on standby, and photographer Alessio Perboni has tapped the dim but constant illumination of these to cast interiors in a new light

Help cancer research by playing the GENIGMA phone puzzle game

9 March 2022

DNA becomes disordered inside cancer cells, and playing GENIGMA on your smartphone will help researchers discover the dangerous forms DNA can fold into, says Layal Liverpool

Undersea beds: Nemo’s Garden takes terrestrial farming to new depths

2 March 2022

It may look like the setting for a science fiction thriller in these photos, but this underwater research farm for terrestrial plants is exploring novel agriculture

Bottom view of the LEGEND-200 liquid argon cryostat and the enclosing water tank. The inner walls of the water tank and the outer wall of the cryostat are covered with a wavelength-shifting mirror film. The purpose is to shift and reflect the light produced by muons via the Cherenkov effect in the water. The photons are detected by photosensors. The purpose of this detector component is to detect and identify cosmic ray muons, some of which still reach the experiment despite being located deep underground the Gran Sasso mountain. (fyi: The muon flux is reduced by a factor 106 (one million) by the rock). If not identified, the muon induced events could mimic the searched signal events.

This gleaming experiment may solve the cosmic mystery of antimatter

12 January 2022

The universe is filled with so much more matter than antimatter. The LEGEND experiment, photographed by Enrico Sacchetti, will soon start trying to unravel this conundrum

FEATURE ONLY The grow hall at Nordic Harvest close to Copenhagen, where a 14 storey high system grows salad leaves in water under UV lights.

Futuristic farm may use 250 times less water than normal

29 September 2021

This vertical farm in Copenhagen uses robots to grow leafy vegetables under LED lights. The company behind it says this results in a reduction of water and energy use

NASA tests a new heat shield featuring Spiderweave

25 August 2021

Taken by photographer Patrick Viruel, this image shows a new type of fabric called Spiderweave being tested for NASA's Adaptable, Deployable, Entry and Placement Technology, an entry system it has designed for galactic mission

The world is hot enough: MI6 has started spying on climate polluters

5 May 2021

MI6 starts spying for the planet, plus what Instagram can teach us about birds and cryptocurrency meets magic mushrooms, in Feedback’s weird weekly round-up