Here Are The Best Microscopic Photos, As Announced By The Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition 2022 (35 Pics)

"Ant (Camponotus)." Tauragė, Lithuania

"Alaskan sand." Yu Cheng, Ya'an, China

"Slime mold (Lamproderma)." San Anselmo, California, USA

"Butterfly scales." World Expo Museum Shanghai, China

"Wood cells." Royal Museum for Central Africa Department of Wood Biology Tervuren, Belgium

"A fly under the chin of a tiger beetle." Ankara, Turkey

"Recrystallized Vitamin C." McCrone Research Institute Chicago, Illinois, USA

"Drops of olive oil in water." Particular Madrid, Spain

"Unburned particles of carbon released when the hydrocarbon chain of candle wax breaks down." Macrofying Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

"Butterfly egg." Jiang Yin, Jiangsu, China

"Embryonic hand of a Madagascar giant day gecko (Phelsuma grandis)." University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland Department of Genetics and Evolution

"Diatoms arranged in an exhibition rosette by Klaus D. Kemp." Montana Diatoms Helena, Montana, USA

"Growing tip of a red algae." University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA Department of Biology

"Transgenic axolotl (CNP:GFP;β3Tubulin:mCherry) showing components of the nervous system. CNP+ Schwann cells (cyan) and axons (magenta)." MDI Biological Laboratory Bar Harbor, Maine, USA

"Bold jumping spider (Phidippus audax)." University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Department of Surgery Mill Valley, California, USA

"Moth eggs." Jiang Yin, Jiangsu, China

"Two-month old juvenile sea star (Patiria miniata)." University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA Department of Molecular and Cell Biology

"Dental drill bit studded with diamond chips." Eckental, Bavaria, Germany

"Black and white human hair." Macro Depok (MD) Department of Engineering Jakarta, Indonesia

"Tail of a planktonic crustacean (Oithona brevicornis)." Hino, Tokyo, Japan

"Four o'clock flower (Mirabilis jalapa)." San Luis, Argentina

"Moss spore capsule (sporangium)." Berlin, Germany

"Amino acid crystals (L-glutamine and beta-alanine)." University of Colorado Boulder Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Boulder, Colorado, USA

"Eyeshadow cosmetic." Arvada, Colorado, USA

"Red speckled jewel beetle (Chrysochroa buqueti rugicollis)." Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

"Slime mold (Didymium clavus)." San Anselmo, California, USA

"Epithelial cells of a palmskin zebrafish larva." Academia Sinica Chen-Hui Chen's Lab Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology Taipei, Taiwan

"Agatized dinosaur bone." Fullbright Studio Vernal, Utah, USA

"Longitudinal section through a white asparagus shoot tip." Ghent University, Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium Department of Biology & Department of Plants and Crops

"Radula (rasping tongue) of a marine snail (Turbinidae family)." Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), Ashburn, Virginia, USA Janelia Research Campus

"Human lung cell infected with coronavirus." Arizona State University Biodesign Institute Biodesign Imaging Facility, Center for Immunotherapy, Vaccines, and Virotherapy Tempe, Arizona, USA

"Cross section of a leaf of dune grass (Ammophila arenaria)." Children’s Ecological and Biological Center Department of Botany Omsk, Russia

"Long-bodied cellar/daddy long-legs spider (Pholcus phalangioides)." University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Mill Valley, California, USA Department of Surgery

"Midge larva collected from a freshwater pond." Dublin, Ireland

"Differentiated cultured mouse myoblasts with lysosomes (cyan/green), nuclei (yellow), F-actin (magenta)." Amicus Therapeutics Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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