"Ant (Camponotus)."

Tauragė, Lithuania

"Alaskan sand."

Yu Cheng, Ya'an, China

"Slime mold (Lamproderma)."

San Anselmo, California, USA

"Butterfly scales."

World Expo Museum
Shanghai, China

"Wood cells."

Royal Museum for Central Africa
Department of Wood Biology
Tervuren, Belgium

"A fly under the chin of a tiger beetle."

Ankara, Turkey

"Recrystallized Vitamin C."

McCrone Research Institute
Chicago, Illinois, USA

"Drops of olive oil in water."

Particular
Madrid, Spain

"Unburned particles of carbon released when the hydrocarbon chain of candle wax breaks down."

Macrofying
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

"Butterfly egg."

Jiang Yin, Jiangsu, China

"Embryonic hand of a Madagascar giant day gecko (Phelsuma grandis)."

University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Department of Genetics and Evolution

"Diatoms arranged in an exhibition rosette by Klaus D. Kemp."

Montana Diatoms
Helena, Montana, USA

"Growing tip of a red algae."

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Department of Biology

"Transgenic axolotl (CNP:GFP;β3Tubulin:mCherry) showing components of the nervous system. CNP+ Schwann cells (cyan) and axons (magenta)."

MDI Biological Laboratory
Bar Harbor, Maine, USA

"Bold jumping spider (Phidippus audax)."

University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
Department of Surgery
Mill Valley, California, USA

"Moth eggs."

Jiang Yin, Jiangsu, China

"Two-month old juvenile sea star (Patiria miniata)."

University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology

"Dental drill bit studded with diamond chips."

Eckental, Bavaria, Germany

"Black and white human hair."

Macro Depok (MD)
Department of Engineering
Jakarta, Indonesia

"Tail of a planktonic crustacean (Oithona brevicornis)."

Hino, Tokyo, Japan

"Four o'clock flower (Mirabilis jalapa)."

San Luis, Argentina

"Moss spore capsule (sporangium)."

Berlin, Germany

"Amino acid crystals (L-glutamine and beta-alanine)."

University of Colorado Boulder
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Boulder, Colorado, USA

"Eyeshadow cosmetic."

Arvada, Colorado, USA

"Red speckled jewel beetle (Chrysochroa buqueti rugicollis)."

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

"Slime mold (Didymium clavus)."

San Anselmo, California, USA

"Epithelial cells of a palmskin zebrafish larva."

Academia Sinica
Chen-Hui Chen's Lab
Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology
Taipei, Taiwan

"Agatized dinosaur bone."

Fullbright Studio
Vernal, Utah, USA

"Longitudinal section through a white asparagus shoot tip."

Ghent University, Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Department of Biology & Department of Plants and Crops

"Radula (rasping tongue) of a marine snail (Turbinidae family)."

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), Ashburn, Virginia, USA
Janelia Research Campus

"Human lung cell infected with coronavirus."

Arizona State University
Biodesign Institute
Biodesign Imaging Facility, Center for Immunotherapy, Vaccines, and Virotherapy
Tempe, Arizona, USA

"Cross section of a leaf of dune grass (Ammophila arenaria)."

Children’s Ecological and Biological Center
Department of Botany
Omsk, Russia

"Long-bodied cellar/daddy long-legs spider (Pholcus phalangioides)."

University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Mill Valley, California, USA
Department of Surgery

"Midge larva collected from a freshwater pond."

Dublin, Ireland