Intake of a humped bladderwort, a freshwater carnivorous plant
Tentacles of a carnivorous plant
Torn photographic film (Fujifilm)
Numerical traces on a Blu-ray disc
The radula or feeding structure of a limpet (an aquatic snail)
Anther of a flowering Arabidopsis thaliana plant
Blood vessels and neural cells in a mouse retina
Root tip of a dicot plant
Degenerating LCD screen liquid
Mouse bicep muscle cross-section
Crystallized flame retardant
African clawed toad tadpole's head
Vilene fabric with drops of glue
Head of a long-jawed spider
Light emitted by a single cell over time
Vascular bundles of papyrus plant
Garnet stone with magnetite inclusions
Underside of a frog tadpole
Human stem cells that have morphed into neurons
Hairyback worm (bottom) next to algae (top right)
Crystalized acne medication
Cross-section of a fossilized bone from a prehistoric horse
Mouse colon colonized with microbes from inside a human
Mitochondria in a live cancer cell
Cross-section of a leaf on a water lily bud
Rat cerebellum cross-section
Vampire moth mouthparts, used to feed on fruit and mammals
Larva of a horseshoe worm
Cow lung artery cell, with structural fibers (black), mitochondria (red), and DNA (blue)
Mouse tongue cross section
Close-up of ancient Chinese pottery
A black witch-hazel leaf producing crystals to defend against hungry animals
A micro-engraving on a glass microscope slide created in the year 1880
Ostrich fern cross section
Bacterial DNA and a chemical probe binding inside bacteria, just following division
Gold and titanium electrodes covered by graphene sheet
Foraminifera shells from the sea
Buoyancy organs of a phantom midge larva
Eye of a honey bee covered in dandelion pollen
Colony of single-celled organisms
Nostoc — a blue-green algae — showing its chlorophyll organelles (red)
A 10.5-day-old muse embryo
Individually colored neurons in a live fruit fly larva
Suction cups on a diving beetle foreleg
Pollen grains of a peace lily
Fern sorus at varying stages of maturity
A 3-D reconstruction of brown fat in a mouse
Lab-grown bud of a human mammary gland
Shells from a deep-sea dredge in the Southwestern Pacific Ocean
Nerves and blood vessels in a mouse ear skin
Cross section of fairburn agate from the Black Hills of South Dakota
Plastic pieces of a drifting fishing net
Zinc-stressed bacteria; red cells are healthy, yellow are impaired, and green are dead
DNA packaged inside a cell nucleus
Live imaging of blood vessels (red) in a mouse brain with a tumor (yellow/green)
Young buds of a flowering plant
A 3-day-old peanut worm larva (yellow: cilia; blue: DNA; red: serotonin in the nervous system)
Power button of a mobile phone collected from the ocean bottom, which includes bryozoan crust (right) and marine worm tube (left)
A liverwort plant's water sacs, which are often home to tiny aquatic animals called rotifers
Internal structures of a fungus mold
Nanoparticles suspended in water between two electrodes
The mouth of a stentor, a filter-feeding microbial animal
