Gallery: Under a Microscope Even Familiar Things Look Beautifully Weird

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    Photos by Stefan Eberhard | Caption: Wellcome Images
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    Plant Reproductive Parts

    Scanning electron micrograph of part of a thale cress flower, showing the male and female reproductive organs.
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    Photos by Khuloud T Al-Jamal and Izzat Suffian | Caption: Wellcome Images
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    Breast Cancer Treatment

    Scanning electron micrograph of a cluster of breast cancer cells (coloured blue).
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    Photos by Annie Cavanagh and David McCarthy | Caption: Wellcome Images
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    Zebrafish Embryo

    Scanning electron micrograph of a four-day-old zebrafish embryo.
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    Photos by Spike Walker | Caption: Wellcome Images
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    Miniature Marine Organism

    Light micrograph of a miniature organism found in the sea, part of a group called Foraminifera.
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    Photos by Spike Walker | Caption: Wellcome Images
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    Vitamin C Crystals

    Light micrograph of crystals of oxidised vitamin C (L-ascorbic acid).
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    Photos by Spike Walker | Caption: Wellcome Images
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    Lily Flower Bud

    Light micrograph of a stained slice of a lily flower bud showing the male and female reproductive organs.
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    Photos by Ashley Prytherch | Caption: Wellcome Images
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    Tick Sucking Blood

    Photograph of a tick burrowing its feeding parts into the skin of the photographer's own leg.
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    Photos by Anders Persson | Caption: Wellcome Images
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    Seal Head

    Computed tomography (CT) scan of the head of a seal.
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    Photos by Eberhardt Josue Friedrich Kernahan and Enrique Rodriguez Canas | Caption: Wellcome Images
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    Agricultural Sludge

    Scanning electron micrograph of waste (sludge) from an industrial farming process, after having been burned.
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    Photos by Anders Persson | Caption: Wellcome Images
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    Mechanical Heart Pump

    (Overall winner) Dual-energy computed tomography (DECT, or dual-energy CT) scan of a patient who received a mechanical heart pump (coloured blue) while waiting for a heart transplant.
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    Photos by Kevin MacKenzie | Caption: Wellcome Images
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    Nit on Human Hair

    Scanning electron micrograph of a nit or head louse egg (coloured green) attached to a strand of human hair (coloured brown).
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    Photos by Kevin MacKenzie | Caption: Wellcome Images
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    Kidney Stone

    Scanning electron micrograph of a kidney stone removed from Kevin Mackenzie, the creator of the image.
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