Winners of the competition the best scientific photography

• The winners best scientific photography

The Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain has named the winners of the best scientific photography. Judges chosen from more than 3,500 works of both amateur and professional photographers. Among them there are pictures that are inaccessible to the human eye: they can only capture special equipment.

Winners of the competition the best scientific photography

of the head pork tapeworm. What looks like the eye - is a sucker, with proboscis they allow the worm to cling to the host stomach. The adult worm can infect humans and reach 2-3 meters in length. This snapshot of Teresa Zhoda won the gold medal of the competition.

Winners of the competition the best scientific photography

Morgan Trimble, won the bronze medal, filmed a herd of impala antelopes. On the back of the leg they can see bundles of black hair - a fragrant metatarsal glands, serve to unite the flock. The secret of glands remains on track antelope, and so her relatives receive information about individuals. The glands are better developed in the male antelope.

Winners of the competition the best scientific photography

Another Gold Award received photo Enrico Sachetti. Xenon1T dark matter detector is located at a depth of 1,400 meters under a mountain of Gran Sasso in Italy. With it conducted experiments to detect dark matter, which is assumed to be 27% of the universe, but also explores the theory of supersymmetry.

Winners of the competition the best scientific photography

Another Gold Award received photo Enrico Sachetti. Xenon1T dark matter detector is located at a depth of 1,400 meters under a mountain of Gran Sasso in Italy. With it conducted experiments to detect dark matter, which is assumed to be 27% of the universe, but also explores the theory of supersymmetry.

Winners of the competition the best scientific photography

The third golden prize departed Eloyu stream of the Main for highly magnified image of the solution inside the neon sticks. So called chemical light sources comprise a combination of fluids that mingling create luminescence.