A topless climate activist Laura Amherst, 31, from Extinction Rebellion protests in Soho, London, United Kingdom on August 25, 2021. The event is part of the “Impossible Rebellion” protest to “target the root cause of the climate and ecological crisis” and are ongoing for two weeks until the Government agrees to stop all new fossil fuel investments. (Photo by Stephen Chung/Alamy Live News)

Members of the London School of Samba at the start of the Grand Finale of Notting Hill Carnival in London on August 29, 2022 which has returned to the capital for the first time in three years after being cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Europe's largest street festival celebrates Caribbean culture and is expected to welcome over 1 million people each day. (Photo by Stephen Chung/Alamy Live News)

Dr. Marius Kruger (C) and memeber of the Kruger National Park keeps the head of a rhino up during a white rhino relocation capture on October 17, 2014. The Kruger National Park relocated four rhinoceros from a high risk poaching area to a safer area as part of ongoing strategic rhinoceros management plan. (Photo by Stefan Heunis/AFP Photo)

Most people know Nikon as a purveyor of pro and consumer-grade digital cameras. But the company's expertise with optics bleeds over into related markets – it's one of the science community's major suppliers of microscopes. And each year the company asks the community to send it some of their favorite images of tiny objects. A panel of scientists and journalists have chosen the best of this past year's submissions, which Nikon has placed on its Small World site.

Photo: Honorable Mention. “Snow crystal, illuminated with colored lights (5x)”. (Photo by Dr. Kenneth Libbrecht, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Department of Physics, Pasadena, California, USA)

Senior hurricane forecaster Dr. Jack Beven studies computer models as he tracks Tropical Storm Arlene at the National Hurricane Center on June 29, 2011 in Miami, Florida. Arlene is the first named storm of the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season and is moving at 8 mph, packing sustained winds of 50 mph as it heads towards the east-central coast of Mexico. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Dr. Hannah Cobb from The University of Manchester looks at a viking sword during a viewing at CFA Archaeology of artefacts discovered from the first fully intact Viking boat burial site on October 18, 2011 in Edinburgh, Scotland. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Actress Tanga Chisholm (L) and actor Stephen Kramer Glickman attend the Ok! Magazine Toasts Hollywood's Sexiest Singles event at the Lexington Social House on April 14, 2011 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)

Actor Jack Black attends the New York premiere of “Kung Fu Panda 2” at Ziegfeld Theatre on May 24, 2011 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)