Nikon’s Small World Photomicrography Competition celebrates the beauty of what we cannot see—unless we have the help of extreme magnification. The contest, which has been running for nearly 50 ...

The winners of the Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition, which aims to showcase “the beauty and complexity of life as seen through the light microscope,” were announced today. This ...

Judges for the Nikon Small World contest just deemed these 20 images the best microscope pictures of 2016. ... Seen at 90X magnification, ...

A startling photograph of an ant’s face magnified five times under a microscope is swarming social media — though it barely merited a mention in the Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition.

Pollen clinging to the delicate threads of a garden spider’s web at 20x magnification. Photograph By John-Oliver Dum, Nikon Small World Under polarized light, this mosquito larva glows in ...

A vivid, extreme closeup of a rodent optic nerve head took home top honors at this year’s Nikon Small World photo competition, which recognizes excellence in photography under the microscope ...

At 20-times magnification, the vein and scales of a Morpho didius butterfly wing begin to look like sculptures wrought in gold and bronze. The fine structures etched into the wings’ scales cause ...

Optical equipment manufacturer Nikon has announced the winners of the 2024 Small World in Motion ... YouTube The movie was filmed using a light sheet microscope with a 20x objective magnification.

Nikon doesn’t just make cameras. The company is split into some rather more scientific divisions, one of which makes microscopes and scientific imaging equipment. The latest from Nikon Vision is ...

A 48-hour time-lapse film of neurons developing in the central nervous system of a chick embryo has won the Nikon Small World in Motion video competition. Taken under a microscope by Alexandre ...