29 Jaw-Dropping Science Images From The 2023 Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition

University of Helsinki Individualized Drug Therapy Research Program, Faculty of Medicine Helsinki, Finland "Blood and lymphatic vasculatures in the ear skin of an adult mouse."

Macrofying Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany "Matchstick igniting by the friction surface of the box."

Universidad Complutense de Madrid Real Sociedad Española de Física Madrid, Spain "Crystallized sugar syrup."

Medienbunker Produktion Bendorf, Rheinland Pfalz, Germany "Sunflower pollen on an acupuncture needle."

The University of Georgia Athens, Georgia, USA "Caffeine crystals."

Tanta University Faculty of Science Department of Zoology Tanta, Egypt "Cuckoo wasp standing on a flower."

World Expo Museum Shanghai, China "Chinese moon moth (Actias ningpoana) wing scales."

National Institutes of Health (NIH) Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Bethesda, Maryland, USA "Adult transgenic zebrafish head showing blood vessels (blue), lymphatic vessels (yellow), and the skin and scales (magenta)."

Independent Value-Based Healthcare Consultant Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland

"Breast cancer cells."

Impressions Microscopiques Amsterdam, Noord Holland, The Netherlands "Crystals of malonic acid dissolved in ethanol."

Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands "Buckthorn trichomes."

Mineralien LLC Valley Village, California, USA "Golden rutile in quartz."

TCDD Teknik Müh. Müş. A.Ş. Ankara, Çankaya, Turkey "Bee"

Medienbunker Produktion Bendorf, Rheinland Pfalz, Germany "Venomous fangs of a small tarantula."

Svosov, Zilinsky, Slovakia "Slime mold (Trichia crateriformis)."

Raghuram Annadana Photography Bangalore, Karnataka, India "Developing stamen and stigma inside a Hibiscus flower bud."

Charles Krebs Photography Issaquah, Washington, USA "Mushroom gills showing sporophores (sporangiophores)."

Bromma, Stockholm, Sweden "Amoeba (Arcella)."

Medical University of South Carolina Department of Regenerative Medicine & Cell Biology Charleston, South Carolina, USA "Neonatal mouse intestinal tissue cells."

San Anselmo, California, USA "Slime mold (Diderma tigrinum)."

Weissensberg, Bavaria, Germany "Fossil diatom."

University of California, San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography La Jolla, California, USA "Coral (Acropora granulosa) fluorescing under blue light."

WildMacro Vacaville, California, USA "Slime mold (Didymium sp.) fruiting bodies."

Lions Eye Institute Department of Physiology & Pharmacology Perth, Western Australia, Australia "Rodent optic nerve head showing astrocytes (yellow), contractile proteins (red) and retinal vasculature (green)."

IES Virgen de la Luz Department of Biology and Geology Avilés, Asturias, Spain "Tail of planktonic shrimp larvae."

Madrid, Spain "Carpenter bee (Xylocopa violacea) head and antenna."

Feltwell, Norfolk, United Kingdom "Auto-fluorescing defensive hairs covering the leaf surface of Eleagnus angustifolia exposed to UV light."

New Hope, Minnesota, USA "A cryptocrystalline micrometeorite resting on a #80 testing sieve."

University of California, San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography La Jolla, California, USA "Fluorescent image of an Acropora sp. showing individual polyps with symbiotic zooxanthellae."