Emma Stoye

2 weeks ago | nature.com | Emma Stoye

The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team. Icy ink. This tardigrade is sporting what is perhaps the world’s tiniest ‘tattoo’, shown as highlighted dots in this microscope image. Researchers used a technique called ice lithography, harnessing an electron beam to etch the pattern into a layer of ice coating the tardigrade.

1 month ago | nature.com | Emma Stoye

The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team. Creepy-crawly courtship. This shot of a pair of courting crab spiders, taken by nature photographer Sandip Guha in Shiliguri, India, highlights the difference in size between the male and his much larger mate (in some crab-spider species, the female is more than 60 times as big). The photo was a winner at this year’s London Camera Exchange Photographer of the Year competition.

2 months ago | nature.com | Emma Stoye

The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team. Fat-cell formation. This ultra-high-res shot of stem cells differentiating into fat tissue was taken by Shuntaro Yamada, a stem-cell biologist and dentist at the University of Bergen, Norway, who says it is among the sharpest images he has ever captured. “Adipogenesis of bone marrow stem cells is definitely an interesting research area for us,” he says.

Oct 2, 2024 | nature.com | Emma Stoye

The month’s sharpest science shots — selected by Nature’s photo team. Fearless hitchhiker. A baby tardigrade hitches a ride on the back of a nematode worm, one of its predators. Despite their miniature size, tardigrades are some of the toughest creatures around. They can survive extreme temperatures and the vacuum of space. And this particular tardigrade clearly hasn’t let the possibility of being eaten stop it from taking part in this tiny, epic rodeo.

Jun 3, 2024 | nature.com | Emma Stoye

The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team. Bright skies. The Milky Way Photographer of the Year competition celebrates the best images of the Milky Way taken around the world — and this year’s crop of winners showcases a dazzling range of shots, on a journey through remote deserts, spectacular glaciers, volcanoes, mountains and beaches .