Shooting Challenge: Water Fight

Shooting Challenge: Water Fight

Summer’s in full swing. So it’s time to make excuses. Excuses to use your camera, to be immature, and to hit somebody consentingly in the face with a water balloon.

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How To Take Photos of Fireworks With Your Phone

How To Take Photos of Fireworks With Your Phone

It just wouldn’t be the Fourth of July without the climactic boom of fireworks. If you want to keep that memory all year—or at least share it with all of your friends on Instagram—these tips will help you get lovely photos with your phone, even if you’re not a pro.

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Shooting Challenge: Fireworks

Shooting Challenge: Fireworks

Say what you will about Americans, but we are really, really good at blowing things up. And for this week’s Shooting Challenge—and the 4th of July!—we’re going to celebrate that in our traditional fashion.

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Alt-week 7.8.2012: Solar flares, trapping dark matter, and life-sized Lego trees

Alt-week peels back the covers on some of the more curious sci-tech stories from the last seven days.

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This week we swing by some superhero news, look at how solar panels might shape up in the future, explore a Lego forest and see how to grab dark matter just using some household gold and strands of DNA. Not only that, we discover how the sun likes to celebrate the fourth of July with its own firework display. This is alt / week

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How To Take Photos of Fireworks With Your Phone [Howto]

It just wouldn’t be the Fourth of July without the climactic boom of fireworks. If you want to keep that memory all year—or at least share it with all of your friends on Instagram—these tips will help you get lovely photos with your phone, even if you’re not a pro. More »