Hosts Miranda Cosgrove and Rob Gronkowski perform during the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California, U.S., April 9, 2022. (Photo by Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)

Charlize Theron and Javier Bardem arrive at the 91st Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood and Highland on February 24, 2019 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)

Fans dressed up in costume await the cast members on the red carpet at the world premiere of the film "The Avengers: Endgame" in Los Angeles, California, April 22, 2019. (Photo by Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)

American singer-songwriter and actress Mandy Moore arrives at the Walt Disney Television Emmy Party on September 22, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)

Cast member Dan Stevens points at Kathryn Newton's heels as they attend a premiere for the film “Abigail” in Los Angeles, California on April 18, 2024. (Photo by Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)

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)

In this Wednesday, December 2, 2015 photo, Dr. Gal Kelmer, head of the department of large animals, unties a horse after its operation at the University's Koret School of Veterinary Medicine in Rishon Lezion, Israel. “Horses have an instinctive response of flight from danger”, Kelmer said. “The minute they wake up they start trying to stand and run, even if they don't have control of their limbs. So then they fall”. (Photo by Oded Balilty/AP Photo)