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Smiling-Damselfly-?Benjamin_Salb This is a stacked image of a damselfly I encountered on an early morning macro outing this spring. The expression of the damselfly is remarkable, and the large pseudopupil area gives it an almost cartoonish quality. This is my favorite damselfly capture to date.

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Incredible close-up images of insects scoop photo contest honours

A “smiling” damselfly and shimmering beetle captivated judges in the Royal Entomological Society’s 2024 Photography Competition

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A natural ice cave formed by glacial retreat, at the edge of a moraine.

Environment

Chilling images reveal melting ice worlds

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Franconian Trumpeter.

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Fancy pigeons flaunt their feathers in this striking photo series

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An aerial photo taken in January 2020 shows excavators at the construction site of a new hospital being built to treat people with covid-19 in Wuhan, China

Health

The most iconic images taken during the covid-19 pandemic

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Canton Z?rich, Switzerland Ice has formed around a waterfall near Gibswil. Icicles growing from the top, and ice formations growing from the bottom have coalesced into one continuous column. Page 16 + 17

Earth

Remarkable images capture the diversity of Earth's ice formations

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The Penguin and the compact elliptical galaxy the Egg

Space

The best space images from 2024

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A fluffy longhorn beetle

Life

A festival of stunning animal pictures from 2024

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Evident Image of the Year global winner: Cross-section of a Cosmic Orange aster flower with pollen grains maturing inside anthers. Captured by Igor Siwanowicz of the United States. Igor Siwanowicz of the United States was selected as the global winner for his striking cross- section image of a Cosmic Orange Mexican aster flower that vividly depicts pollen grains maturing inside anthers. To create this image, Siwanowicz embedded isolated florets in agarose, sectioned on a vibratome and stained with Calcofluor White and Congo Red dyes. The sample was dehydrated, cleared and mounted in methyl salicylate. Siwanowicz chose to image this flower to observe how aster florets are organized before the flower opens. ?I was lucky to pick my flower buds at the right stage of development, with the pollen grains almost fully mature but still bound together in a mass,? Siwanowicz explained. ?I think this image shows the true beauty of a common flower that most of us take for granted by extending it well beyond what we can see with the naked eye. The beauty of natural form and design is present on very different scales, sometimes almost in a fractal manner?as we continue to zoom in, the form may lose familiarity but also become a new emotional experience.?

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See the world in close-up in these intricate images of nature

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What: This photo shows a spiny toad amplexus, with a female in the middle of several males. When: The photo was taken in May 2024. Where: The image was taken in the Pyr??n??es Atlantiques, France. How it was taken: The photo was taken at night, when hundreds of toads are crossing the roads to reach their egg-laying grounds. It's common to see such clusters of toads at this time of year. How it was post-processed: I made some basic adjustments to the brightness and contrast, as well as highlighting the individuals and applying a slight vignetting, while taking care not to distort the original photo.

Life

See nature in close-up in these stunning photographs

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The winner of Nikon Small World photography competition went to a shot of tumour cells in a mouse's brain

Life

These stunning photos celebrate the intricacy of the microscopic world

A mouse's tumours, scales from a butterfly's wings and a smiling cross-section of a bracken fern are some of the incredible images from the Nikon Small World photography competition

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Life

See the stunning winners from the Wildlife Photographer of the Year

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Space

A dramatic return from space in Kazakhstan

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Astronomy Photographer of the Year showcases world's best space images

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Close-up photographs of seeds show their intricate beauty

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