Nikon Small World is a video and photo contest for capturing the microscopic world on a microscopic level. The winners of the 2025 video category, the ' 2025 Small World in Motion Competition,' were ...

Following is a transcript of the video. These rotating orbs are alive. Each one is a colony of hundreds of cells which work together to form the lifeform volvox. Volvox is a resident of Brooklyn. But ...

Photographs capturing the small world through a microscope have been unveiled. Japanese optical instruments company 'Nikon' has announced the winners of this year's micrography awards. Nikon has been ...

They say love teaches even asses to dance; well it seems the proverb holds true even for some microscopic organisms. Colonies of the common algae Volvox have been observed locked together in “waltz” ...

Volvox are microscopic algae, spherical aggregates of thousands of flagellated cells. The spheres twirl about in ponds, swimming up and down in the water and interacting with their neighbours in ...