Then, in 2023, the University of New Hampshire published an image of a leafcutter ant from Ecuador produced using an electron microscope, and while it's slightly less unnerving than Kavaliauskas ...

A microscopic photograph of an ant's face went viral, after it was submitted to Nikon's 48th annual Small World Photography Competition this year. tara mahadevan October 21, 2022 ...

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A startling photograph of an ant’s face magnified five times under a microscope is swarming social media — though it barely merited a mention in the Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition.

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By using powerful microscopes, scientists from Cambridge University now know how ants keep themselves clean. They use parts of their body which look a lot like small combs and brushes. It's all ...

The winners of the 48th annual Nikon Small World contest for photography under the microscope are in, and one astonishing "image of distinction" is raising hairs around the world. The contest ...