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NASA on Sunday shared a photo on Facebook and Twitter of the sun looking a lot like a giant flaming jack-o’-lantern. The space agency captured the spooky image on October 8, 2014. The face is the result of active regions of the sun burning more brightly than others, NASA said. “They are markers of an …

Lemur species vary enormously in their size, appearance and behaviour, from the strange-looking nocturnal aye-aye to the sideways-leaping Coquerel’s sifaka. All species are endemic to the island of Madagascar, where they are under severe threat from fragmentation and loss of their forest habitat, due to logging, subsistence agriculture and forest fires, and are also at …

In July, Caty Nixon, a physically and emotionally exhausted labor and delivery nurse, was finally able to take a moment at her sister’s home. In hospital scrubs, with a glass of water in her hand and a plate of food in her lap, Nixon broke down after a heartbreaking 53-hour, four-day shift. It is a scene …

The image released by the White House shows the California Democrat standing with her finger pointed at a seated Trump during a meeting in which congressional Democratic leaders said the President had a “meltdown.” Pelosi’s deputy chief of staff Drew Hammill noted the change on Twitter, writing, “Thanks for the new cover photo @realDonaldTrump!” Reporters …

Google Night Sight opens up creative possibilities. Sarah Tew/CNET Over the last three years, Google’s Pixel phones have earned a well-deserved reputation for photographic strength. With the Pixel 4 and 4 XL, the company is flexing new camera hardware and software muscles. The new flagship Android smartphone, which the search giant unveiled Tuesday, gets a …

Image copyright Yongqing Bao It looks like it ought to be the subject of a funny caption competition but this picture taken in China’s Qilian Mountains is deadly serious. The fox has surprised the marmot and a fight is about to begin that will result in the rodent being killed. Not even the intervention of …

KATIE Piper has bravely posted a harrowing photo of herself showing her burned face after she was attacked with acid. The former Strictly star took to Instagram to reveal the extent of her injuries and explain the psychological toll it took on her life. 9 Katie Piper bravely shared this photograph of her acid attack …

Canada’s Green party has admitted to manipulating a photograph on its website to make it seem as if the party leader was using a reusable plastic cup and metal straw instead of a disposable paper cup. The image shows leader Elizabeth May, smiling and holding a plastic cup emblazoned with the Green party logo and …

It’s getting easier and easier to use AI to generate convincing-looking, yet entirely fake, pictures of people. Now, one company wants to find a use for these photos, by offering a resource of 100,000 AI-generated faces to anyone that can use them — royalty free. Many of the images look fake but others are difficult …

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was just asked when did he first realize that wearing blackface was racist. He pointed to the diversity of the crowd gathered in Winnipeg, Manitoba, to watch him speak, and said serving as a leader for diverse populations made him realize that blackface and brownface are wrong. “Fighting for them, …