Beauty contests are slightly computational to begin with. While the notion of beauty is of something ephemeral and unquantifiable, a beauty pageant asks that we categorize and rank it: determining ...

For the first time, an international beauty contest will be judged solely by a panel of robots. The contest will require participants to take selfies using a special app and submit their images on the ...

The participants in the beauty contest wear the simple brown dresses of the Ashaninka indigenous woman, their faces dotted in a traditional design with a red dye extracted from a spice called achiote.

They went batty for this beauty. A bat from Oregon named William ShakespEAR won a nationwide beauty contest for the winged mammels. The female Townsend’s big-eared bat won the annual contest organized ...

A Chilean soap-opera star, a beauty from ancient Pompeii and a freckled tomboy hardly make an average beauty pageant line-up. But the three faced off in the first worldwide digital beauty contest, ...

An Italian priest set aside his plan to hold a beauty contest for nuns. The Rev. Antonio Rungi says he wanted to change the image of nuns and to fight the stereotype that they're old and cranky. He ...

Move over, Fat Bear Week. A bat beauty contest is now stepping up to the plate. The Bureau of Land Management has hosted the online competition since 2019 to raise awareness about the animal’s ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Batty eyelashes, pouty lips and perfectly placed humps – not all camels are blessed with such good looks. Enter cosmetic enhancements. A dozen camels were ...

Robots are starting to appear everywhere: driving cars, cooking dinners and even as robotic pets. But people don’t usually give machine intelligence much credence when it comes to judging beauty. That ...