Pictures: It’s beautiful, a Swiss flag!

A shot of the transparent abdomen of a glass frog wins first prize in the ‘Subject of Study’ category. Taken by Francesca Angiolani-Laria, a doctoral student at the University of Bern, this image won the jury its “simple and effective composition” that offers “a fascinating and innovative point of view.”

Francesca Angiolani Larrea

Raphael Barmack, PhD student at EPFL, wins the “Places and Tools” category with an image documenting an electronic device developed to study bees. For the jury, “High Quality Picture” takes us “into a new bio-hybrid world where the natural meets the artificial.”

Rafael Barmack

First prize in the Women and Men of Science category was awarded to Maria Francesca Petrucci, PhD student in Veterinary Sciences at the University of Bern, for her self-portrait taken alongside Minipig. According to the jury, the veterinarian’s “tender and benevolent gesture softens the sometimes tense subject of animal experimentation” in a picture that “brilliantly reveals the seldom-seen part of emotion in science.”

Maria Francesca Petrucci

Among his accolades was this amazing visualization of the cerebrospinal fluid around the optic nerve. This supercomputer simulation reveals how cerebrospinal fluid flows around the optic nerve (the latter running through the center of the annulus has been removed for clarity).

Diego Roscinelli, Gata Berberat and Gil Foresti

Maize root microbiome. Maize root extracts were deposited on plates filled with agar-agar—a growth medium—in order to grow the bacteria that colonized them.

Lisa Thonen

Learn roulette. The gecko must locate the food in a vertically or horizontally placed maze.

Francesca Angiolani Larrea

High stakes in medical history. This photo was taken at the Hôpital Saint-Louis Museum-Bibliotheca in Paris. It includes a collection of books related to the history of medicine and skin diseases, many of which are out of print and very rare.

Alexander Wenger and Radu Socio

The wandering eye. A microscopic eye surgeon trains a technique on an artificial eye.

Julien Bossett

wheat harvest. The research station for plant sciences at ETH Zurich in Eschikon (ZH) includes a virtual open-field imaging platform (kp.ethz.ch/FIP). It is equipped with high-tech devices, including a rope-carrying system, drones, and agricultural robots.

Andreas Hund

organized chaos. Monitors, cables, tubes, lamps, containers, computers, infusion pumps, valves, heaters, shunt systems… Research must control all parameters likely to affect the outcome, and what is done with animals must also ensure that no Any unexpected damage occurs. These two requirements create a hardware mess that the scientist must not only deal with during experiments, but also keep under control.

Georgios Rouvas

UV reactor for photopolymerization.

Deborah Thuney

My voice in pictures. A participatory research method that uses photography to give children and youth the opportunity to express themselves on social issues and public decisions that affect them. Here, “No snack, no break.” “Adults, you can help those kids who don’t have everything they like, encourage them to go on with their lives without wanting the things other people have. And help them. Be more towards the kids and don’t have your little coffee on the break.”

Sylvia Garcia Delahaye and Lavinia Johnson

Accounts of the Episcopate of Basel 1458-1474.

Corinna Libby

Thin layer chromatography during the synthesis of fluorophores. A technique for spatially separating the components of a mixture.

Salome Pentainer