Nikon announced the winners of its 44th annual Small World photomicrography competition. The winning image for 2018 captures part of the compound eyes and surrounding greenish scales of an Asian red ...

The honeybee is the most geometrically minded of insects. The honeycomb that bees build with wax is always laid out in quasi-horizontal, non-angled hexagonal cells, to be filled with bee larvae and ...

Justin Zoll's microscopic photography is one of the most perfect fusions of art and science we have ever seen. These mind-bending psychedelic images are all created by placing crystallized substances ...

Photographer Manfred Kage studies the world of microscopic wonders. He puts everyday objects under a microscope, photographs them, and then adds color to the shots through a special filter system. We ...

Ever wondered what the inside of a dinosaur bone looks like in close-up? Or how about a few grains of pollen caught in knots of cotton fabric? Wonder no more thanks to a hand-picked look at highlights ...

Every year, Nikon’s Small World photomicrography contest collects the very best in microscopic photography, and every year the results are strange, beautiful, and basically impossible to identify.

There are millions of photo competitions. But very few of them deal with objects that are normally invisible to the naked eye. SPIEGEL ONLINE brings you the winners of this year's microscopic photo ...

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