From a rodent’s optic nerve and the venomous fangs of a small tarantula to auto-fluorescing hairs on a leaf, the images winning the Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition are luminously colorful works of art revealing the artistic side of science.
For its 49th edition of photos showing the beauty of a world that can only be seen with a microscope, each image was judged not only for its scientific technique but also its artistry. The winners were selected from among 1,900 entries from 72 countries and a wide array of scientific disciplines.
This year’s first place was awarded to Hassanain Qambari, assisted by Jayden Dickson of the Lions Eye Institute (a center for ophthalmological care and scientific research), for his vivid image of a rodent optic nerve head showing astrocytes (yellow), contractile proteins (red) and retinal vasculature (green). The colorful image provides an important contribution to the study and reversal of diabetic retinopathy, which affects one in five persons with diabetes worldwide.
“The competition not only celebrates the participants’ hard work and passion but may also draw and inspire young scientists to pursue a career in STEM. It certainly inspired me,” said Qambari.
All the images of the top 10 winners, honorable mentions and Images of Distinction can be found on the Nikon Small World website.
Auto-fluorescing defensive hairs covering the leaf surface of Eleagnus angustifolia exposed to UV light.
The venomous fangs of a small tarantula inspire terror at this size.
This is a trichinella cyst in pork muscle. (Trichinella is a parasitic worm known to cause trichinosis).
Stamen and stigma develop inside a Hibiscus flower bud in Bangalore, India.
Slime mold (Comatricha nigra) shows its capillitial fibers through its translucent peridium.
Cuckoo wasp stands on a flower at Tanta University Department of Zoology in Tanta, Egypt.
Ostracods flit through algae, surrounded by bubbles.
Muscle architecture of an evaginating tapeworm (Taenia crassiceps cysticercus) at National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) Department of Immunology, Mexico City.
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