BBSRC Science Photo Competition For Best Science PhotoGraphy

Science isn’t just boring equations and such, as these winning photos from the BBSRC’s inaugural Science Photo Competition shows.
The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, the leading funding agency for academic research and training in the United Kingdom, asked its scientists to share images that are beautiful as they are informative taken in the course of everyday research

Nickel Growing in Trees

Nickel Growing in Trees
WASTE NUT - These nodules of chrome and nickel build up over time from the process of electroplating bumpers. Photo: Chuck Shotwell.

Electroplating uses electricity to turn dissolved ions into a thin layer of solid metal bonded to a surface. Photo: Chuck Shotwell.
Electroplating makes bumpers shiny and rustproof. It also makes these beautiful