A participant in the Crazy Races extreme sports game competes in the cross-country obstacle race in Ufa, Russia on September 21, 2015. (Photo by TASS/Barcroft Media)

Scientists have captured these images in laboratories during research into what makes our daily food. Photo: Blueberry. (Photo by SPL/Barcroft Media)

Breeder of baby goat Mohammad Hasan Narejo and a child show ears of 2-month-old female baby goat named Simbi in Karachi, Pakistan on June 07, 2023. Simbi has the world's longest ears which are 55 cm. (Photo by Sabir Mazhar/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Naked Sushi event where people eat sushi from the bodies of nearly naked models at Buddha Bar, Knightsbridge in London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Alamy Stock Photo)

People celebrate after Gov. Ricardo Rossello announced that he is resigning Aug. 2 after weeks of protests over leaked obscene, misogynistic online chats, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Thursday, July 25, 2019. (Photo by Carlos Giusti/AP Photo)

View of an oil-stained bird on the shore of a contaminated lake in Maracaibo, Venezuela on June 22, 2023. The Azul Ambientalistas foundation denounced on 22 June the “state of emergency” in which the Maracaibo Lake, the largest in Venezuela, finds itself, due to oil spills that, it assured, are affecting the lake economy and the health of the people. (Photo by Henry Chirinos/EPA)

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)

Livestock vendors displays their bulls to customers at a cattle market in Hyderabad, in Pakistan's Sindh province on May 20, 2025, ahead of the upcoming Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha. (Photo by Husnain Ali/AFP Photo)