Some of the top entries to Nikon’s Small World 2024 Photomicrography Competition:
Steven A. Valley, Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA) Entomology Lab Albany, Oregon. Immature male damselfly (Calopteryx aequabilis)
Dr. Bruno Cisterna and Dr. Eric Vitriol, Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, Augusta, Georgia. Differentiated mouse brain tumor cells (actin, microtubules, and nuclei)
Thomas Barlow and Connor Gibbons, Columbia University, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, New York. Cluster of octopus (Octopus hummelincki) eggs
Chris Romaine, Kandid Kush, Port Townsend, Washington. Leaf of a cannabis plant
Gerhard Vlcek, Maria Enzersdorf, Austria. Cross section of European beach grass (Ammophila arenaria) leaf
Paweł Błachowicz, Bedlno, Świętokrzyskie, Poland. Eyes of green crab spider (Diaea dorsata)
Alison Pollack, San Anselmo, California. Seed of a Silene plant
Zhang Chao, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. Beach sand
Dr. Robert Markus, University of Nottingham, School of Life Sciences, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, U.K. Dandelion (Traxacum officinale) cross section showing curved stigma with pollen
[All images © the photographers, Nikon’s Small World]
Mick Hartley 
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