The World's Smallest Art Prize
http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/its-a-small-world-after-all
Image: WinnerHeiti Paves of the Tallinn Institute of Technology, Estonia, won the competition with this image of a thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana) anther magnified at 20x. The thale cress is an important species used in the study of plant genome traits. It made history in 2000 when it became the first plant to have its entire genetic code sequenced and now stands as a model species for understanding the molecular biology of many plant traits.
