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      20 Winning Pictures: It's a Small, Small, Small, Small World

      Have a look at the images that won this year's Nikon Small World contest

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      20 Winning Pictures: It's a Small, Small, Small, Small World
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      20 Winning Pictures: It's a Small, Small, Small, Small World

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      • 20 20th Place
        Solvin Zankl
        Solvin Zankl Images
        Kiel, Germany
        Sergestes larva (deep-water decapod crustacean) (30x)
        Darkfield... Courtesy of Nikon Small World Contest
      • 19 19th Place
        Eric Kalkman
        Laboratory of Phytopathology, Wageningen University
        Wageningen, The Netherlands
        Hyperbranching of the fungus Neurospora crassa (bread mold) exposed to Latrunculin B (200x)
        Confocal... Courtesy of Nikon Small World Contest
      • 18 18th Place
        Dr. Tamily Weissman
        Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
        Harvard University
        Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
        "Brainbow" transgenic mouse hippocampus (40x)
        Confocal... Courtesy of Nikon Small World Contest
      • 17 17th Place
        Monica Pons
        Institut de Biologia Molecular de Barcelona (CSIC)
        Barcelona, Spain
        Arabidopsis thaliana root (10x)
        Confocal... Courtesy of Nikon Small World Contest
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      • 16 16th Place
        Richard Bulgin
        Imperial College London
        London, UK
        Transfected fibroblast with lamellipodia (100x)
        Fluorescence... Courtesy of Nikon Small World Contest
      • 15 15th Place
        Wim van Egmond
        Micropolitan Museum
        Rotterdam, The Netherlands
        Radiolarians, fossil shells (160x)
        Differential Interference Contrast... Courtesy of Nikon Small World Contest
      • 14 14th Place
        Charles Krebs
        Charles Krebs Photography
        Issaquah, Washington, USA
        Closterium , diatoms and Spirogyra (40x)
        Polarized Light... Courtesy of Nikon Small World Contest
      • 13 13th Place
        Milan Kosanovic
        Belgrade, Serbia/Montenegro
        Recrystallized Vitamin C (10x)
        Polarized Light Courtesy of Nikon Small World Contest
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      • 12 12th Place
        Charles Krebs
        Charles Krebs Photography
        Issaquah, Washington, USA
        Rear leg section of Water Boatman (Hemiptera: Corixidae) (200x)
        Rheinberg Illumination... Courtesy of Nikon Small World Contest
      • 11 11th Place
        Wim van Egmond
        Micropolitan Museum
        Rotterdam, The Netherlands
        Diatoms on red alga (100x)
        Darkfield... Courtesy of Nikon Small World Contest
      • 10 10th Place
        Harold Taylor
        Kensworth, Dunstable, Bedfordshire, UK
        Orchestia gammarella (sand hopper) (10x)
        Darkfield... Courtesy of Nikon Small World Contest
      • 9 9th Place
        David Walker
        Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, UK
        Compact disc case detail (5x)
        Polarized Light Courtesy of Nikon Small World Contest
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      • 8 8th Place
        John Hart
        Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
        University of Colorado
        Boulder, Colorado, USA
        Crystallized mixture of resorcinol, methylene blue, and sulphur (13x)
        Polarized Transmitted Light... Courtesy of Nikon Small World Contest
      • 7 7th Place
        Dr. Margaret Oechsli
        Jewish Hospital, Heart & Lung Institute
        Louisville, Kentucky, USA
        Mitomycin (an anti-cancer drug) (10x)
        Polarized Light... Courtesy of Nikon Small World Contest
      • 6 6th Place
        Klaus Bolte
        Stittsville, Ontario, Canada
        Chrysolina fastuosa (Micro leaf beetle) on a pin head (40x)
        Stereomicroscopy... Courtesy of Nikon Small World Contest
      • 5 5th Place
        Charles Kazilek
        Arizona State University
        Tempe, Arizona, USA
        Japanese specialty paper fibers (Sugixawa Tenjyo) (100x)
        Confocal... Courtesy of Nikon Small World Contest
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      • 4 4th Place
        Matthew Springer, Ph.D.
        University of California, San Francisco
        San Francisco, California, USA
        Differentiation of unicellular Dictyostelium discoideum into multicellular slugs (100x at 10")
        Stereomicroscopy... Courtesy of Nikon Small World Contest
      • 3 3rd Place
        Albert Tousson
        High Resolution Imaging Facility
        University of Alabama at Birmingham
        Birmingham, Alabama, USA
        Convallaria majalis (Lily of the Valley) (1300x)
        Confocal... Courtesy of Nikon Small World Contest
      • 2 2nd Place
        Paul Marshall
        National Research Council Canada
        Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
        Carbon nanotubes, post growth (30x)
        Stereomicroscopy... Courtesy of Nikon Small World Contest
      • 1 1st Place
        Michael Stringer
        Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, UK
        Pleurosigma (freshwater diatoms) (10x)
        Polarized Light Courtesy of Nikon Small World Contest
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