advertisement 10-30-2013 INNOVATION BY DESIGN 20 Of The Year’s Best Microscopic Images Each year, Nikon hosts the biggest competition in tiny photography. Here are the winners.

Microscopic images, major surprises We all mindlessly pick up everyday objects—a toothbrush, a ballpoint pen or maybe a scrap of paper—without a second thought.

Wiik-Nielsen was fascinated by the microscope’s capacity to magnify the organisms up to 200,000 times, and it soon became a research tool of choice. Her favorite subjects are parasites.

Weston captured the video using a research microscope from the 1970s. His aim was to visually illustrate the symbiotic relationship between termites and these particular microscopic organisms.

The scariest ant you've ever seen and a wasp's stinger up close are some of the many entries in Nikon’s Small World photo contest this year.

As scientists continue to show how effective masks can be at slowing the spread of the new coronavirus, particularly when they have a good fit and are worn correctly, some have taken microscopic ...