In the competition of scientific photography was won by a tapeworm detector of dark matter
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By Pictolic https://pictolic.com/article/in-the-competition-of-scientific-photography-was-won-by-a-tapeworm-detector-of-dark-matter.htmlThe Royal photographic society of great Britain has named the winners of the best scientific photos. Judges chose from more than 3,500 works of both Amateur and professional photographers. Among them are paintings, inaccessible to the human eye: they can capture only special equipment.
Part of the head of the pork tapeworm. What look like eyes, this sucker, along with the proboscis, they allow the worm to cling to the stomach of the host. The adult worm can infect a person and reach 2-3 meters in length. This snapshot of Theresa's suspension won the gold medal of the competition.
Morgan Trimble, received a bronze award, filmed a herd of antelope Impala. On the back of the feet they are visible tufts of black hair is smelly metatarsalgia glands that are essential for the cohesion of the herd. The secret of the glands remains on track antelopes, and so her relatives receive information about individuals. Glands are better developed in males of antelope.
Another gold award received photo Enrico Sachetti. Detector Xenon1T dark matter is at a depth of 1400 metres under the mountain of Gran Sasso in Italy. With it, experiments are being conducted to detect dark matter, which presumably is 27% of the Universe, and examines the theory of supersymmetry.
This work of Jonathan Brett, who won the silver medal, composed of 600 images of the retina in different States. It turned out kind of chart of Ishihara color test, which helps determine color blindness.
The third Golden prize departed Eloy Lane for a highly enlarged image of the solution inside the neon wand. The so-called chemical light sources contain a combination of solutions which mix to create the glow.
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