1/201st Place Eye of a Metapocyrtus Subquadrulifer Beetle Picture: Yousef Al Habshi
Nikon’s mind-blowing Small World photo competition
GALLERY: Showcasing some of the world’s most mind-boggling macro-photography, the Nikon Small World competition gives us a candid glimpse at the human retina, a psychedelic view of amino acid crystals and a look at the spheres of a bee’s venom at the end of a stinger ...
2/2019th Place Asian hornet (Vespa velutina) with venom on its stinger Picture: Pierre Anquet
3/203rd Place Spittlebug nymph in its bubble house Picture: Saulius Gugis
4/2012th Place Urania ripheus (butterfly) wing scales Picture: Luciano Andres Richino
5/209th Place Security hologram Picture: Dr. Haris Antonopoulos
6/2010th Place Stalks with pollen grains Picture: Dr. Csaba Pintér
7/2013th Place Balanus glandula (acorn barnacle) Picture: Charles Krebs
8/202nd Place Fern sorus (structures producing and containing spores) Picture: Rogelio Moreno
9/2015th Place Varroa destructor (mite) on the back of Apis mellifera (honeybee) Picture: Antoine Franck
10/204th Place Peacock feather section Picture: Can Tunçer
11/2020th Place Human retina Picture: Dr. Nicolás Cuenca & Isabel Ortuño-Lizarán
12/208th Place Portrait of Sternochetus mangiferae (mango seed weevil) Picture: Pia Scanlon
13/2011th Place Human fibroblast undergoing cell division Picture: Nilay Taneja & Dr. Dylan Burnette
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15/205th Place Spider embryo Picture: Dr. Tessa Montague
16/2014th Place African green monkey cell (COS-7) stained for actin and microtubules Picture: Andrew Moore & Dr. Erika Holzbaur
17/2016th Place Mouse oviduct vasculature Picture: Dr. Amanda D. Phillips Yzaguirre
18/2017th Place Breast tissue in lactation Picture: Caleb Dawson
19/2018th Place Amino acid crystals Picture: Justin Zoll
20/207th Place Human tear drop Picture: Norm Barker
Developer’s goal to turn small tourist town into ‘mini Double Bay’
A huge $34m apartment complex has been approved for a South Coast tourist town, with the developer behind the project saying he wants to see the area transform into a “mini Double Bay”.
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‘Fearful, fed up’: Veteran launches community security patrol
Residential security patrols have been launched in the Northern Rivers after inundating pleas from “scared and angry” residents facing break-ins, repeat burglaries and tactics like doorknocking to target the vulnerable.
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