Take the photo above, for example.
It looks so sharp as to be unrealperhaps AI-generated!
Its an image of the fragments of a butterfly wing on the tip of a syringe.
The 12th place went to this shot of a butterfly’s wing scales on a medical syringe.Image: Daniel Knop
This year, over 2,100 images were submitted for contention from over 80 countries.
The teams research on the findings waspublishedearlier this year in theJournal of Cell Biology.
Third place went to Chris Romaine for an up-close shot of a cannabis leaf.
The 20th-place image was this shot of mouse cells. Image: Dr. Bruno Cisterna & Dr. Eric Vitriol
The world up close is often overlooked as we rush about our macroscopic lives.
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The seed of a Silene plant. Photo: Alison Pollack
The 18th place image: An insect’s egg parasitized by a wasp. Image: Alison Pollack
The 17th place image: The reproductive organs of stonewort algae. Image: Dr. Frantisek Bednar.
In 16th place was this shot of two water fleas with embryos (left) and eggs (right.) Image: Marek Miś
The 15th place went to this image of isolated scales of a Madagascan sunset moth’s wing. Image: Sébastien Malo
In 14th place: Recrystallized hydroquinone and myoinositol. Image: Marek Miś
In 13th place was this shot of eyes of a green crab spider. Image: Paweł Błachowicz
The 12th place went to this shot of a butterfly’s wing scales on a medical syringe. Image: Daniel Knop
This slime mold carrying water droplets took 11th place. Image: Dr. Ferenc Halmos
In 10th place: A shot of black truffle spores. Image: Jan Martinek
This image of pollen in a spider web took 9th place. Image: John-Oliver Dum
8th place was awarded to an image of a neuron from the brain of an adult rat. Image: Stephanie Huang
The 7th place belonged to this image of a cross section of a European beach grass leaf. Image: Gerhard Vlcek
Cribraria cancellata, also known as Dictydium cancellatum, slime mold from Finland, microscope image
The 5th place image was this shot of octopus eggs. Image: Thomas Barlow & Connor Gibbons
In 4th place: A view of a mouse’s small intestine. Image: Dr. Amy Engevik
This leaf of a cannabis place took 3rd place on the podium. Image: Chris Romaine
The silver medal went to this view of an electrical arc between a pin and a wire. Image: Dr. Marcel Clemens
The competition-winning image was this shot of differentiated brain tumor cells from a mouse. Image: Dr. Bruno Cisterna & Dr. Eric Vitriol.
