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See a prize-winning photograph of mating golden-tabbed robber flies

Pete Burford, who only took up macro photography two years ago, has won the Insect Week Photography Competition 2022 for this stunning close-up shot

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See our pick of the entries for the Sony World Photography Awards

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Searching for the stars near my hometown, Pollachi, led me to the forests of the Anamalai Tiger Reserve. As I moved away from towns and their lights, the darker it got, the more I could see - fireflies, stars. I was fascinated when I saw hundreds of fireflies flashing at the edge of the forest and heard stories of trees laden with fireflies deep in the forest. Predicting the time of their peak activity, I set out to a remote area of the reserve along with forest officials. I waited for nightfall in anxiety. Flashes of green started appearing at twilight. As the place grew dark, millions of fireflies started synchronizing their flashes across several trees. Flashes started in one tree and continued across several trees in a mexican-wave like fashion. It lasted all night. I felt transported to another planet. Being under a sky full of stars, with fireflies flashing in the foreground, owls and other nocturnal creatures calling at a distance, Elephants and Leopards lurking around the corner, this was Nature as our ancestors experienced. The image, created by stacking several photographs, shows a 16 minute activity of the fireflies. ? Sriram Murali, India, 3rd Place, Professional competition, Wildlife & Nature, Sony World Photography Awards 2023

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A red-eyed tree frog in its Costa Rican rainforest home

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Some of the stunning winners of the Sony World Photography Awards

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Dazzling photographs of flocking flamingos

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Dazzling photographs of flocking flamingos

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Wintry scenes top Weather Photographer of the Year competition

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View of the Valle del Diavolo, near Monterotondo Marittimo (GR). In the center, the plumes of smoke from the "Lagone", the only remaining example of the exploitation of boric acid begun in Monterotondo Marittimo in 1812, today transformed into an extraction and injection well of the "Monterotondo Marittimo 1" geothermal power plant.

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A gift from nature: Geothermal energy in Tuscany's Valle del Diavolo

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The LSST Camera, the world’s largest digital camera

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World’s largest digital camera has same resolution as 266 iPhones

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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)

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Astronomers have unveiled the world’s largest digital camera

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Shutterstock will sell AI-generated art and 'compensate' human artists

After removing images generated by artificial intelligence models from its archives last month, Shutterstock is now going to sell ones created exclusively by OpenAI's DALL-E 2 AI

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Dazzling photographs reveal the world on a microscopic scale

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Winning images from Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2022 competition

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Dazzling photograph of pink-breasted galahs in Australian desert

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Striking photos show scale of development in sub-Saharan Africa

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