the best science images of 2017 (royal photographic society)

Gold Award (18-25) – £750 and an RPS Gold Medal: Taenia solium by Teresa Zgoda (USA)

Royal Photographic Society .The best Science Images of 2017

Gold Award (26 & Over) – £1000 and an RPS Gold Medal: Xenon1T Detector by Enrico Sacchetti (Italy)

Gold Award (17 & Under) – £500 towards photography equipment and an RPS Gold Medal: FerrofluidGlowing Multicolour by Ella Main (UK)

Richard Germain: Surface Tension. A safety pin sitting on the surface of water.

Richard Beech: Soap Bubble Planet. Close-up view of a soap bubble.

Daniela Rapavá, Observatory Rimavaská Sobota: Frozen Soap Bubble

James Woodend: Aurora over a Glacier Lagoon

Arghya Adhikary: The Silent Assassin. A green vine snake (Ahaetulla nasuta) attacking a common tailorbird(Orthotomus sutorius). Mildyvenomous, this snake more commonlyhunts frogs and lizards and is foundacross India and Southeast Asia.

Silver Award (26 & Over) – £750 and an RPS Silver Medal: Retinal Ishihara Artwork by Jonathan Brett (UK).

Stephen Gschmeissner: Mosquito Foot. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of the mosquito tarsus

Houda Chaloun: The Ice Gateway.

Kathleen Sheffer: Healing -35 Weeks Later. Self-portrait of a photographer at home eight months after a heart-lung transplant.

Angela Jones: Searching. A red fox (Vulpes vulpes) hunts for food under the winter snow.

Zoltan Toth: Snowflake. Close-up view of a single snowflake.

David Bryson: Pulex irritans (Female). Photomicrograph of a female human flea (Pulex irritans).

Luis Davilla: Faraday Cage. A Faraday cage being used to isolate a television antenna during a test.

Paolo d'Errico: The Monet Astrocytes. Laser confocal light microscope image of astrocytic cells isolated from mouse brain

Henri Koskinen: Spore Capsule of a Moss. Spore capsule of the many-fruited thyme-moss (Plagiomnium affine)

Leka Huie: Osaka Umeda SkyBuilding. View upward along anescalator at the Umeda SkyBuilding in Osaka, Japan.

Robert Lamberts, Plant & Food Research: Spinning Rainbow.

Bronze Award (26 & Over) – £500 and an RPS Bronze Medal: Impala - Cutaneous Glands by Morgan Trimble (South Africa). Legs of Impala (Aepyceros melampus).

Richard Sharrocks: Balancing Act. Collision of three water droplets in a bowl of water.

Gavan Mitchell & Ryan Jeffries: Modelling Dissection. Four plaster models showing thoracic and abdominal dissection.

Richard Germain: Poisson's Spot. In the centre of the fame is the shadow cast by a tiny steel ball illuminated by a red laser.

Matouš Pikous: Light Refraction. Water drops on the surface of a tablet computer. Several colouredlines had been drawn on the screen.

A. Menegon: Facial Paper Tissue. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of the cellulose fibres in facial tissue

A. Menegon: Red Blood Cell. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a red blood cell, or erythrocyte, seen in a sinusoid of the liver.

Gavin J Taylor: Outside and inside of a compound eye.

Gabriel Kelemen PhD: Liesegang Rings Blue. Close-up view of Liesegang rings in a chemical solution.

Miss Kseniya Shuturmanska & Dr Estelle Collin: Mimickingthe Cancer Environment. Coloured scanning electronmicroscope (SEM) image of a pancreatic cancer cell.

Mark Levitin: Erta'ale. Lava lake in the crateror Erta Ale volcano, Danakil, Ethiopia

Tran Hung Dao: In the Rain. Electricity workers repairing high-tension power transmission lines in the rain.

Alexandre Lagreou: Hands-on Entomology.A young female giant prickly stick insect (Extatosoma tiaratum) on the hand of a researcher.

This picture titled 'Bass Guitar String', a longitudinal section though a 45 bass guitar by Gerd Guenther

Dr Jeremy Burgess: Water Lily Leaf. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a section through a leaf stalk of the water lily Nymphaea album. The water lily has overcome the difficulty of getting air to its submerged roots by having large diameter open tubes within the stalks.

Stephen Gschmeissner: Chloroplasts. Colouredscanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a dying euglenoid alga showing the release of its chloroplasts (green).

Gerd-A. Günther: Greater Celandine. Light micrograph of a seed grain of the greater celandine (Chelidoniummajus).

Andrey Narchuk: Coral Architecture. Close-up view of corals of the order Scleractinia.

Jungwook Kim: Dancing Shampoo. The Kaye effect in shampoo.

Pratik Pradhan: Blue Mormon Butterfly. Wings of a blue mormon butterfly (Papilio polymnestor).

Pratik Pradhan: A Nightmare of the Small World. A colony of a giant forest scorpions (Heterometrusswammerdami titanicus) captured during midnight.

Gerd-A. Günther: Amoeba shells. Light micrograph of empty shells of a testate amoeba (Difflugia sp.).

A pair of sea slugs in 'Angels in Love' by Andrey Narchuk

Oleksandr Rupeta: Red Crescent Hospital in Kabul. A laboratory worker draws blood from a woman for a diagnostic blood test.

Islam Shaheen: Car light trails. Light trails from road traffic at dusk.

Amanita Ascends by Phred Petersen

Monument Valley by John Vermette

Dave Watson ARPS: Horsehead and Flame Nebulae. At the centre of the image above is the famous Horsehead Nebula (B33).

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