Sex of weevils, the head of a worm, the beauty of mold: Nikon Small World photo contest announced the winners

The results of the annual Nikon Small World competition, in which photographers from all over the world compete in the beauty of images taken with a microscope, have been summed up. More than two thousand photos from all over the world were sent to the contest, from which several of the best works were selected.

Source: Washington Post

1st place: a human skin cell with a large amount of keratin highlighted inside it.

2nd place: macrophoto of the flower of the common krestovnik. 2-fold magnification.

3rd place: the release of a new colony of volvox algae from the shell of the mother cell.

4th place: the head of a tapeworm of the type of pork tapeworm (Taenia solium).

5th place: mold on a tomato.

6th place: lily pollen spores.

7th place: a part of the chicken embryo's brain, "colored" using the brainbow neuroimaging method, which is based on the introduction of fluorescent proteins into the animal genome.

8th place: hair cells (red) and neurons (green) in the cochlea (part of the inner ear) of a rat.

9th place: cultivation of cartilage tissue in the laboratory using bone stem cells (green "balls" — collagen fibers, red — fat deposits).

10th place: mating weevils (Phyllobius roboretanus).

11th place: the place where the hologram breaks on the plastic card.

12th place: the eye of the haymaker spider.

13th place: the cuckoo bee Exaerete frontalis, lays eggs in the nests of other bee species.

14th place: butterfly eggs on a leaf.

15th place: bat embryo.