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Bielfeldt, 25, won the Nikon Small World photomicrography competition with an image capturing ink droplets being deposited on paper by an inkjet printer, beating 1,802 entries from 69 countries. To freeze the fast-moving droplets, he disassembled a printer so the paper moved beneath a stationary printhead and photographed the scene in darkness using a flash as the shutter.
Nikon disqualified Ning Xu's winning Small World in Motion video of cilia after an investigation found it violated competition rules regarding AI use, following researcher complaints about anomalies and apparent AI watermarks in source files. Nguyen Nam Nhat of Vietnam, whose video shows a roundworm and a single-celled organism, has been named the new winner, with other finalists moving up one place.
Ning Xu, an optical engineer at Tsinghua University in Beijing, won Nikon's 2023 Small World in Motion competition with a super-resolution video capturing the abnormal beating of airway cilia in a child with primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD). His entry topped 346 submissions from 40 countries in the contest, which is a video-focused offshoot of Nikon's long-running Small World Photomicrography Competition.