Five winning images from a photo contest show scientists at work and capture the wonder of research and discovery.
Lee Haines, a vector biologist at the University of Notre Dame peers into a microscope at a mosquito. "It looks like I'm traveling through space, doesn't it?" she asks of the photo, a winning image in the Scientists at Work photo contest.
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