2021's Best Photos of the Microscopic World - Gizmodo

Biologist Jason Kirk from Baylor College of Medicine was awarded first place for this image of hair-like trichomes (shown in white) and stomata (the purple pores), as seen on a southern live oak leaf.

The image, at five-times magnification, shows the rear leg, claw, and respiratory trachea of a louse (the singular for lice).

The fourth-place image is shown as 10-times magnification.

Andrea Tedeschi of The Ohio State University won the sixth-place prize for an image showing the intricate—if not chaotic—three-dimensional vasculature of an adult mouse brain.

This seventh-place image, shown at 10-times magnification, reveals the weirdness that is a tick head.

Jan van IJken of The Netherlands was awarded ninth place for this very cool image.

Sébastien Malo of France won the 10th-place prize for this close-up view of a butterfly wing (Morpho didius), showing veins and scales.

Martin Kaae Kristiansen of Denmark captured this image, showing filamentous strands of the Nostoc cyanobacteria

Alison Pollack of San Anselmo, California, captured this remarkable image of Arcyria pomiformis, a species of slime mold