Stephanie Gallant of Mount Pearl is a PhD researcher at Memorial University. Gallant used one to capture the image, and then she took some artistic licence to make the particles visually pop with teal, pink and mustard hues. "That's kind of the artistic part of what I've done, is that I've digitally coloured it afterwards, trying to highlight the different shapes that you see." "There's something visually interesting in every science, I personally think, and you can see that in the contest entries," said Gallant. This is a scanning electron microscope, the instrument Gallant used to capture her image.

Source: CBC News September 10, 2020 08:26 UTC