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The global photography competition recognizes creative storytelling that showcases how science and health affect people’s lives.

science art

Image of a water flea with attached vorticella. A fireworks-like trail of cells bursts from it.

An Artist Showcases Plankton Through a Microscope Lens

Image of a sculpture of a bacteriophage made from steel and bronze.

Biologist Bryan Welm Welds Metals into Biomolecular Sculptures

Image of a wooden sculpture comprised of multiple wooden neurons that form a bear.

Wooden Neurons: An Artistic Vision of the Brain

A panel of six screenshots from the computer animated game Microscopya, developed by Beata Science Art.

Playing Games to Learn Cell Biology

Beata Mierzwa, a postdoctoral researcher at University of California San Diego and the founder of Beata Science Art, poses for a photograph holding a print of one of her science illustrations. She has bright blue hair and is wearing leggings from her microscopy print design that features blue and green and red and blue cells.

Finding Beauty in Biological Spaces

Formed of various flowers, this personification cartoon of a female botanist, painted by George Spratt, was pasted into Allen’s copy of The English Flora.

La Botaniste, 1810–1865

Image of the Day: Nature by Hand

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A team of cartoon scientists studying a giant pancreas.

Prolonged GLP-1 Exposure Remodels Gene Expression in the Pancreas by Flipping a Molecular Switch

Image of a Diploptera punctata cockroach.

Cockroach Milk Proteins Churn Out an Ig Nobel Win

Photo of John Calhoun crouches within his rodent utopia-turned-dystopia

Universe 25 Experiment

A drawing of men and women holding boxes, resigning en mass from their jobs as editors.

Editors Mass Resign from Elsevier Journal After Editor-in-Chief Let Go

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Multiplex Microscopy Becomes Easier with Encoded Antibodies

A new system that enables researchers to uniquely tag monoclonal antibodies for use in microscopy could help simplify complex imaging studies.

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Essential Genes Are Dominantly Activated by Single Transcription Factors

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Rethinking ALS Biomarkers: From Discovery to Clinical Impact

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