Small Wonders: Science Meets Art Under the Microscope
Award-winning images reveal the surreal beauty hiding in the tiny world that lies beyond human vision
Small Wonders: Science Meets Art Under the Microscope
- AGATE Retired biologist Douglas Moore won second place for photographing the delicate details recorded on a 270 million-year-old agate from Canyon Tepee, S.D. These stones are unique not only for their age and vibrant colors, but because they often contain fossil remains that other types of agate don’t have... Douglas L. Moore; University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point Museum of Natural History
- NEURONS Rebecca Nutbrown from the University of Oxford took third place with this image of neurons (green) derived from human skin cells. The image also shows Schwann cells (in purple), which give support to the neurons, interacting in the same way they would with neurons in the brain... Rebecca Nutbrown; Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford
- THE LEG OF A WATER BEETLE This colorful photo shows the front side of the leg of a water beetle. The image was produced with a confocal microscope, using a technique in which a scanner is used to photograph sections up to 250 nanometers thick... Igor Siwanowicz; Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
- "ROSE OF JERICHO" Leaves of Selaginella , a genus of plants common in tropical areas, are pictured here. One species, S. lepidophylla , is commonly known in Latin America as “rose of Jericho.” The image was taken using a technique called differential interference contrast to visualize transparent structures... David Maitland; Norfolk, United Kingdom
