Life is pretty interesting, and at the microscopic scale, it can also be beautiful, strange, intriguing, frightening and gross. The winning photos and videos from this year's Olympus BioScapes ...

The universe’s wonders are all around us — you just have to look close enough. Every year, the Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition asks microscope-wielding photographers the world over to ...

It's hard to know whether to gasp or laugh at the winning picture in this year's Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition. One thing's for sure: The humped bladderwort is no laughing matter to ...

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I recently became aware of the Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition ® which recognizes outstanding images of life science specimens captured through light microscopes, using any magnification ...

The folks at Olympus know a thing or two about what makes a pretty picture. One thing they appreciate is that the most striking images are often the ones that are too small to see. That’s why they ...

We are approaching the millennial anniversary of the first meaningful written description of how lenses and light could be used to magnify objects. It was in 1011 that Arab scientist Ibn al-Haytham ...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (UPI) --Every year, the Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition shines a light on some of the most impressive and visually stunning images of human, plant and animal subjects ...

A competition featuring astounding images of life seen through a microscope, a marriage of science and art, has announced its 2014 winners. The best examples of microscopy were chosen from entries in ...

The 2011 Olympus BioScapes competition brings the beauty of micro-organisms out of the lab. Here is a gallery of our favourite images from the contest, including petite plankton, dinky Drosophila and ...

Microscope / major endoscopeOlympusSponsored byOlympus BioScapes Digital Imaging CompetitionIs the world's largest microscopic photography contest for the subjects in the field of life sciences such ...

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