Emma Stoye

Cambridge

Senior News Editor at Springer Nature

Senior news editor at @Nature | I've stopped posting here. I'm over on the other place - https://t.co/uuIGGDYbCq

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See the Milky Way dazzle during a lunar eclipse - May’s best science images

1 week ago | nature.com | Emma Stoye

The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team. Epic sky. Photographer Petr Horálek observed both a lunar eclipse and a galaxy of stars from the the US National Science Foundation’s Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. This shot was one of 25 winners selected for the for the 2025 Milky Way Photographer of the Year competition.
Did a tardigrade get the world’s tiniest tattoo? April’s best science images

1 month 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.
Incredible close-up of colourful crab spiders - March’s best science images

2 months 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.
See fat cells forming in super-sharp focus - February’s best science images

Feb 27, 2025 | 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.
See a tardigrade ride a worm in the world’s weirdest rodeo - September’s best science images

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.
Jaw-dropping views of the Milky Way and more - May’s best science images

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 .
The corpse of an exploded star and more - March’s best science images

Mar 28, 2024 | nature.com | Emma Stoye

The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team. Supernova shot. Astronomers captured this stunning 1.3-gigapixel image of the Vela supernova remnant — the remains of a star that exploded more than 10,000 years ago — using the telescope-mounted Dark Energy Camera (DECam) at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile.
Giant plume of plasma on the Sun’s surface and more - February’s best science images

Feb 29, 2024 | nature.com | Emma Stoye

The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team. Deadly blaze. An intense, fast-moving wildfire that tore through Chile’s Valparaíso region in early February has destroyed 98% of the country’s national botanical garden in the coastal resort of Viña del Mar. A small patch of green is all that remains, among a forest of charred trees.
Mysterious exploding star and more - January’s best science images

Jan 31, 2024 | nature.com | Emma Stoye

The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team. By Emma Stoye 31 January 2024 Under the stars. This panoramic photo of Paepalanthus flowers under the Milky Way in Brazil’s Chapada dos Veadeiros national park was a winner of the 2023 Nature Photography Contest. To capture the shot, landscape photographer Marcio Cabral illuminated the flowers with a lamp and used a camera specialized for astrophotography. Ready for the close-up.
Stunning stem cells and Starlink trails - November’s best science images

Dec 4, 2023 | nature.com | Emma Stoye

Stem-cell spheroid. This is a cluster made out of the stem cells found in dental pulp — the innermost layer of the tooth. These cells are derived from the neural crest, the part of an embryo that goes on to form the nervous system as well as bones in the face and skull.