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

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

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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.

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

Source: Washington Post

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

5th place: mold on a tomato.

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

6th place: lily pollen spores.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

10th place: mating weevils (Phyllobius roboretanus).

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

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

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

12th place: the eye of the haymaker spider.

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

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

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

14th place: butterfly eggs on a leaf.

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

15th place: bat embryo.

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