Overview

• The 2025 Nature Scientist at Work competition received over 200 entries, with six winning images selected by a jury of Nature staff.
• Emma Vogel's winning photograph features biologist Audun Rikardsen deploying whale-tracking tags in the Norwegian fjords.
• Other winning entries include researchers ice coring in Svalbard and a biologist holding tiny froglets in California's Lassen National Forest.
• Additional winners depict a weather balloon launch in foggy Mount Helmos, the South Pole Telescope under an aurora, and a starlit Siberian landscape.
• The annual competition, now in its sixth year, aims to humanize scientific research and foster public engagement through visual storytelling.