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蠕虫

Credit: Teresa Zgoda/Nikon Small World

WORM FROM HELL: This nightmarish creature is the pork tapeworm Taenia solium, captured at ×200 magnification.  The image was a finalist in Nikon’s Small World photography competition.

地狱蠕虫：猪肉绦虫Taenia solium，200倍放大照片

蛋白晶体

Credit: David Green/RPS Images for Science

THE ONLY WAY IS UP! The arrow-shaped relief on this calcite crystal, imaged by a scanning electron microscope, is governed by a protein that binds to the crystal surface and patterns it as it grows.

一路向上！ 扫描电镜下的蛋白晶体

海葵花

Credit: Craig Burrows

UNDER THE LIGHT: This ultraviolet-light image by US photographer Craig Burrows reveals the hidden hues of an anemone flower.

灯光下：紫外线下的海葵花

章鱼座驾

Credit: Michael B. Hardie/Smithsonian

BACK-SEAT OCTOPUS: This interspecies piggyback ride was caught by photographer Michael Hardie in the waters off Hawaii. The image was a finalist in the annual Smithsonian.com photo contest.

章鱼座驾：章鱼背负式骑行

地面控制

Credit: Reuben Wu

GROUND CONTROL: On the Norwegian island of Svalbard, low sun backlights an antenna that downloads data from the Joint Polar Satellite System-1. The craft launched in November as the first of a new set of US weather satellites.

地面控制：挪威斯瓦尔巴特群岛，低太阳背光源可以从联合极地卫星系统-1下载数据

火飞花

Credit: Robert Lamberts/Plant & Food Research

SPARKS FLY: This tiny firework display was made by ‘electrospinning’, in which an electric charge draws fibres from a liquid.

SPARKS FLY：静电纺丝，电荷从液体中吸取纤维。

恐怖化石

Credit: Jian Han

FEARSOME FOSSIL: Meet Saccorhytus coronarius, a millimetre-scale fossil at least 529 million years old. The species, reported in January, might be the oldest known member of the deuterostomes, the animal group that includes vertebrates.

恐怖化石：至少5.29亿年前的毫米级化石Saccorhytus coronarius

透明青蛙

Credit: Jesse Delia/Boston Univ.

SEE-THROUGH PARENT: The eggs inside this pregnant ‘glass frog’ (Hyalinobatrachium colymbiphyllum) are clearly visible through its transparent belly

透明母亲：怀孕的“玻璃青蛙”，透明的腹部里的可见卵细胞清晰可见。

单个细胞的重量

Credit: Martin Oeggerli/micronaut.ch/ETH Zurich/University of Basel

A SINGLE CELL: What does a human cell weigh? In October, researchers in Switzerland unveiled this cantilever scale designed to detect minute fluctuations in a living cell’s mass

单个细胞的重量：悬臂秤，探测活细胞质量的微小波动

返回地球

Credit: SpaceX

BACK TO EARTH: US firm SpaceX made strides with its reusable-rocket system. Here, a stage of the Falcon 9 rocket lands back on a ship in the Pacific Ocean in January, after delivering satellites into orbit — a now‑routine procedure for the company.

返回地球：SpaceX公司的可重复使用火箭在降落

隔离区

Credit: Ju Huanzong/Xinhua

ISOLATION ZONE: In May, volunteers were sealed into China’s Lunar Palace 1 research facility in Beijing, designed to test life-support systems for a base on the Moon.

隔离区：志愿者在中国月球宫1号，测试生命支持系统

橙色瀑布

Credit:  Tom St George/Caters News

ORANGE ABYSS: Heavy rains and run-off from surrounding forests give this underwater cavern — the Cenote Carwash off Tulum on Mexico’s Caribbean coast — its eerie tannic glow.

橙色瀑布：周围森林的大雨和径流注入这个水下洞穴 ，带来发出橙色光芒的单宁酸。

珊瑚礁修复

Credit:  Tom St George/Caters News

REEF RESTORATION: More than 400 coral ‘trees’ grow in this nursery off the coast of Tavernier, Florida. The set-up aims to nurture corals that in the wild are increasingly endangered by threats such as warming waters and ocean acidification.

珊瑚礁修复：海洋苗圃里生长着的珊瑚“树”，目的是培育野外珊瑚

资料来源：2017 in pictures: The best science images of the year.  https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-08492-y。特此感谢。本文对部分照片说明的翻译有简化。

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