2 February 2012 Last updated at 19:14 GMT
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In pictures: Science meets art in annual contest
The contest is open to photographs and microscope images as well as pure artwork. Here, Robert Belliveau's 800-times magnification of a growing cucumber's skin shows its microscopic defence: trichomes. Forty times thinner than a needle, the sharp structures protect the cucumbers from being devoured as they grow.
