The 33 winners in the 11th annual Polaroid International Instant Photomicrography Competition were announced in early December. Prizes totaling $13,750 were awarded for images that best combined artistic beauty and useful scientific information. A panel of top microscopy experts selected the winners from nearly 600 entries from Australia, Austria, Canada, England, Germany, Switzerland, Taiwan, and the United States. The winning image was a 400X magnification of the feathery structure of a male mosquito's antenna, taken by Gregory Paulson, a biology instructor at Washington State University. Shown here is a 40X electron micrograph of a freshwater crustacean, Daphnia, which won an honorable mention. The image was taken by Jurgen Berger, a technical assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tubingen, Germany.
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