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Extremely small, incredibly close These photographs from the Wellcome Image Awards 2012, made possible by microscopy, record a beauty usually hidden to the human eye – and the overall winner will be announced this week. Diatom frustuleIt looks a radioactive hazard warning. In fact, this delicate assembly of triangles is a scanning electron micrograph of a diatom. Diatoms are single-cell organisms that are one of the most common types of phytoplanktons and play a major role in sustaining life on Earth.
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Extremely small, incredibly close

These photographs from the Wellcome Image Awards 2012, made possible by microscopy, record a beauty usually hidden to the human eye – and the overall winner will be announced this week.

Diatom frustule
It looks a radioactive hazard warning. In fact, this delicate assembly of triangles is a scanning electron micrograph of a diatom. Diatoms are single-cell organisms that are one of the most common types of phytoplanktons and play a major role in sustaining life on Earth.

(via guardian)

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