Paris (AFP) – Simply looking at nature -- or even just digital pictures of it -- can relieve pain, according to new research which scanned the brains of people receiving electrical shocks.

“Disclaimer: We managed to rescue them in the end.” All the winning and finalist images of the Nature Photography competition illustrating the diverse beauty of our world, can be seen here.

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It holds several key understandings of the role of the Sabbath. Verse 17 “ in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, but on the seventh day he stopped working and was refreshed.’” The Lord himself ...

Its first images showed the probe sitting upright on the grey surface, and included an evocative shot of its shadow on the Moon as Earth gleamed in the sky above. The landing is a much-needed win ...

One of three Herculaneum scrolls housed at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, UK, has been digitally unrolled using X-ray images taken at Diamond, the United Kingdom’s national synchrotron facility.

But Avery recently came clean and told the world that his “photos” were actually generated by Midjourney, a text prompt-based artificial intelligence image-generation program. To develop the ...