The Beauty and Bitterness of Seeing Small Ning Xu's winning video from this year's Nikon Small World in Motion competition showcases the intricate beauty of microscopic worlds.
His super resolution footage, which took 40 hours to capture, highlights both the captivating motion of cilia beating in a child with Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia (PCD) and the stark reality of what's missing for this young patient.
The Nikon Small World competitions have been a mainstay of scientific visualization since their inception by Nikon in 1974.