A leaf, drops of water on a soap cake or white snowflakes that are seen through a microscope lens are impressive and beautiful.

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Dr. Tsutomu Seimiya at Metropolitan Tokyo University, Japan, was awarded the photo of a watery soap cake taken from a microscope.

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Martin Spitaler and Anna Schnitger at the Immunogenomics Laboratory of Imperial University London, England, captured the enlarged image of a mosquito.

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Dr. Jorge Bernardino de la Serna at the University of Southern Denmark has recorded images of different membranes.

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The electronc gas image was taken by Pedro Barrios-Perez at the Microstructure Science Institute in Canada.

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Photo of Daniel Pregibon at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, about molecules in DNA research.

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Photographs of snowflakes were magnified 10 times and viewed under polarized light, captured by Jesper Gronne in Silkeborg, Denmark.

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Dr. Jeffery Bowen at Bridgewater University, USA, recorded an image of an exaggerated dragonfly and transformed it through computer software.

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Christian Gautier from Avignon, France, showed a cross-section of a cedar tree leaf.

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Dr. Stephen Lowry of the University of Ulster, England, won the award with an impressive image of a snail's tongue.