See tiny organisms on show in microscopic video competitionCloseNikon’s annual Small World In Motion competition is open to anyone around the world with an interest in film or time-lapse photography through a microscope.This year’s winning video was magnified to 100 times in size, and featured tiny hair-like structures, called cilia, in the airways of a child with a rare genetic disease.It was submitted by Dr Ning Xu, a researcher at Tsinghua University in China, who used a series of complicated light waves to illuminate different parts of the sample in colour.Runners up in the competition included videos of a roundworm encountering a single-celled organism and microscopic jellyfish larvae suspended in droplets of water. Clips of bioluminescent algae and a tiny sea slug were among the highly commended.Shareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingNatureFollow Natureclose panelYou are now following NatureUpdates from your News topics will appear in My News and in a collection on the News homepage.Read description
