Your guess is as good as ours. It took Science Photo Library
photographer David MacCarthy to explain his award-winning electron
micrograph scan in the 2005 Novartis and the Daily Telegraph Science
Photographic Awards before we could tell what it was.
McCarthy
was named overall winner and winner of the closeup categories of the
competition with this image of a salt grain and a peppercorn.
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