High-resolution versions of the 20 winning photographs from the 2006 Nikon Small World competition.

Yesterday, Nikon revealed the winners of the 32nd annual Small World photography contest. Thousands of academics, private-sector scientists, and armchair microscopists from dozens of countries sent in pictures taken through microscopes, and the top 20 shown here came from Scotland, Mexico, Germany, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Australia, England, and the ol' U.S. of A. picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago