It looks like a scene from deep space – twisting structures, symmetry, and textures so intricate they barely seem real. But this astonishing vision isn't sci-fi or AI at all. It's the newly crowned overall winner of the Royal Society Publishing Photography competition.
The winning photograph, a microscope image of two threads of silk from the Australian net-caster spider, has just been announced as the top honor in this year's competition, run in association with the Royal Photographic Society (RPS) – a global celebration of images that reveal the beauty of science.
