Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon and Daniel Barrett have won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects for "Avatar: Fire and Ash" at the 2026 Academy Awards. With this win, all three of James ...

Behind the epic battles and blockbuster effects, autistic artists at Exceptional Minds are doing the work that brings Hollywood’s biggest films to life. Rachel Graham has more. Trump taunts 'future ...

To investigate how the brain combines knowledge with visual processing to locate eye movement targets, we trained monkeys to search for a target defined by a conjunction of color and shape. On ...

Motion is characterized by a series of positions an object traverses over time. An object presented sequentially at two positions, with a time delay between them, is sufficient for us to perceive ...

Claude is expanding on one of its coding tools to bring immersive visuals like charts and graphs to chats, all built in the moment to present responses to complex questions. AI models have proven they ...

Welcome to Smithsonian Open Access, where you can download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images—right now, without asking. With new platforms and tools, you have easier access to ...