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The Nature Photography Contest has unveiled its breathtaking 2025 winners, featuring everything from playful wildlife moments to urgent environmental messages. Thomas Vijayan's powerful image of an orangutan pleading for its vanishing forest home took the top prize.
Scientists around the world are capturing breathtaking images while doing groundbreaking conservation and research work. This year's winning photos from Nature's Scientist at Work contest showcase everything from extinct birds learning to migrate again to technicolor algae blooms from the sky.
Scientists worldwide can now capture their research in action for a chance to win £500 and see their work featured in Nature magazine. The amateur photography competition celebrates the real, behind-the-scenes moments that make science happen.
A young photographer joined her local women's rugby team after watching the Red Roses compete, turning her newfound passion into a career-launching documentary project. Her work now captures the sisterhood and resilience of grassroots women's rugby while she pursues professional sports photography.
Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered to watch nine contestants compete in a Zohran Mamdani lookalike contest, proving that wholesome fun still brings communities together. Part-time actor Amadeo Fusca took home the $100 prize and bragging rights as the best doppelgänger.
Wendy's is celebrating World Redhead Day with a look-alike contest in New York City, where the winner takes home free burgers for a year. The contest honors the fast-food chain's iconic redheaded mascot, originally modeled after founder Dave Thomas's daughter.
A groundbreaking project is putting cameras in the hands of young migrants, letting them share their journeys through their own eyes. The GRABS initiative uses photography and podcasts to showcase hope and resilience across borders.
A Gisborne sheep farmer has won her third international photography award for capturing the beauty of New Zealand's working farm dogs. Rebecca Williams beat 4,000 global entries with her documentary-style images of sheepdogs in action.
A Bengaluru photography club's international competition attracted hundreds of artists from around the globe, proving that visual storytelling still unites us across borders. The 2026 showcase introduced a bold new category that sparked fresh creativity.
A researcher's video of fluttering cilia in a child's airways just won an international microscopic film competition, revealing stunning beauty in the invisible world around us. The contest showcases how everyday curiosity is helping scientists make new discoveries.
A brave photographer captured the winning shot of blood-sucking flies landing on a crocodile's head in Panama. The British Ecological Society's annual photography competition showcases stunning moments of animals, plants, and scientists working together in nature.
A graphic novel about a banana named Hanna and a poem about wild weather just earned two elementary students top honors in Kentucky's 2026 Young Writer's Contest. Their creative work stood out among nearly 1,500 entries from students across the state.
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Three spiky-headed egret chicks fighting in their New Jersey nest just won the grand prize in Smithsonian Magazine's 23rd annual photo contest. The image beat out 17,000 submissions from 108 countries to claim top honors. #
A Nebraska photographer is transforming hospital hallways into galleries of natural beauty, offering patients and families moments of peace during difficult times. Chuck Starr's wildlife and nature photography now fills CHI Health Good Samaritan's Walkway Gallery through July.
A rescued pug from South Korea just won $5,000 at California's World's Ugliest Dog Contest, proving every dog deserves love. The quirky competition champions adoption and celebrates the beauty in imperfection.
India's Sustera Foundation is offering cash prizes up to ₹15,000 for short videos about marine litter and coastal conservation. The Sea, Shores & Society contest invites everyone to share creative solutions before June 5.
HNL Lab Medicine is asking young students to imagine their greatest scientific discovery through art. The contest invites kids to fill test tube racks with colorful experiments that could cure the common cold or invent something entirely new.
Energy giant Enel just awarded prizes to architects and engineers who reimagined wind turbines as vertical sails, flower-shaped collectors, and mirror-clad towers. The global contest attracted over 500 proposals to make renewable energy both more efficient and beautiful.
The 2026 Milky Way Photographer of the Year contest just announced its winners, showcasing breathtaking images of our home galaxy from places like New Zealand, Spain, and Yellowstone. These photographers spent weeks planning and capturing the perfect shots of meteor showers, glowing nebulas, and our galaxy rising over waterfalls and caves.
NBA star Damian Lillard returned to competition for the first time since tearing his Achilles tendon last April, winning his third 3-Point Contest at All-Star Weekend. His improbable victory ties him with legends Larry Bird and Craig Hodges for most wins in the event's history.
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