Nature magazine has published their picks for the best science images of 2025. The image above you will recognize as a tardigrade, but what are those dots? Those are a contender for the world's smallest tattoo. The tardigrade was in a cryptobiotic state, frozen and covered with ice but later was just fine. A team from Westlake University in Hangzhou, China, used an electron beam to cause chemicals in the ice to adhere to the creature's skin and remain after the ice was gone. That's one tiny tattoo. But not all the images are from science experiments.
Thirteen-year-old Grayson Bell won some accolades in the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards with this photo of two male green frogs in a fight. He titled it "Baptism of the Unwilling Convert," which makes it funny as well as cool. See science photographs of space, weather, animals, events, the unseen world under microscopes, and more in an immersive presentation from Nature. -via kottke
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