Gallery: 20 Incredible Photos of a World Too Tiny to See
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__1st Place: Rogelio Moreno__, Panama, Panama __Subject:__ Rotifer showing the mouth interior and heart shaped corona __Technique:__ Differential Interference Contrast __Magnification:__ 40X
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__2nd Place: Alessandro Da Mommio__, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy __Subject:__ Rhombohedral cleavage in calcite crystal __Technique:__ Crossed Polars __Magnification:__ 10X
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__3rd Place: Noah Fram-Schwartz__, Greenwich, Connecticut __Subject:__ Jumping spider eyes __Technique:__ Reflected Light __Magnification:__ 20X
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__4th Place: Karin Panser__, Institute of Molecular Pathology I.M.P. Vienna, Austria __Subject:__ Caterpillar proleg with circle of gripping hooks in red __Technique:__ Confocal, Autofluorescence __Magnification:__ 20X
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__5th Place: Muthugapatti K. Kandasamy__, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia __Subject:__ Bovine pulmonary artery endothelial cells stained for actin (pink), mitochondria (green) and DNA (yellow) __Technique:__ Super Resolution Microscopy
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__6th Place: Douglas Brumley__, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge __Subject:__ Active fluid flow around *P. damicornis* (coral polyp) __Technique:__ Fluorescence, Autofluorescence __Magnification:__ 4X
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__7th Place: Dennis Hinks__, Cleveland, Ohio __Subject:__ Circuitry in DVD reader __Technique:__ Cross-polarized microscopy __Magnification:__ 100X
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__8th Place: Igor Robert Siwanowicz__, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, Virginia __Subject:__ Appendages of a common brine shrimp __Technique:__ Confocal __Magnification:__ 100X
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__9th Place: Meritxell Vendrell__, Universitat Autònoma, Barcelona, Spain __Subject:__ Parsley (*Petroselinum crispum*) ovary fixed & stained to show lectins (red), nuclei (blue) __Technique:__ Confocal laser scanning microscopy __Magnification:__ 63X
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__10th Place: Paul Joseph Rigby__, CMCA, The University of Western Australia, Crawley __Subject:__ Daisy petal with fungal infection and pollen grains, whole mount, unstained __Technique:__ Confocal autofluorescence __Magnification:__ 10X
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__11th Place: Stefano Barone__, Cremona, Italy __Subject:__ House cricket's tongue (*Acheta domesticus*) __Technique:__ Rheinberg illumination (Dark field with interference filter) __Magnification:__ 25X
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__12th Place: Douglas Moore__, University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point __Subject:__ Montana Dryhead agate, unpolished __Technique:__ Fiber Optic Illumination __Magnification:__ 50X
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__13th Place: Charles Krebs__, Charles Krebs Photography, Issaquah, Washington __Subject:__ *Conochilus unicornis* (rotifer), actively feeding. __Technique:__ Differential Interference Contrast __Magnification:__ 417X
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__14th Place: Ali Erturk__, Munich, Germany __Subject:__ Mouse brain vasculature __Technique:__ Light Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy __Magnification:__ 2X
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