Each year Olympus hosts an international competition for images captured through light microscopes. Entries come in from around 70 countries and number in the thousands, revealing the weird and wonderful microscopic world otherwise hidden from the human eye. See this year’s winning entries
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The open ‘mouth’ of a floating humped bladderwort plant (Utricularia gibba) took first prize in Olympus’ microscope image competition. Igor Siwanowicz, a researcher from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Farm Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia, took the winning image of the carnivorous plant, beating more than 2,000 entries from 71 countries. See gallery
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