New images that provide a breathtaking inner visuals of the little things that are hidden from the outer world

Jason Kirk of Baylor College of Medicine captured 200 distinct photographs of a southern live oak leaf using a custom-built microscope setup that he then combined to create a single magnificent image.

Australian neuroscientists Esmeralda Paric and Holly Stefen broke a cluster of 300,000 networking neurons, which separated into two populations.

Frank Reiser of Nassau Community College zooms out even more to catch the left side of a single hog louse, also known as Haematopinus suis among biologists.

Andrea Tedeschi, a neuroscientist who has mastered a technique that allows researchers to see every blood vessel in the brain, right down to the smallest capillaries.

Tong Zhang and Paul Stoodley of Ohio State University focused their attention on a tick's head.

Another microscopic image is of a glowing, golden portrait of a 40-million-year-vintage gnat, trapped in Baltic amber.

It shows a close-up of a midge that features a feathery antennae stand out in crisp evaluation to the black background.