This show gets better and better. Each year, scientists and medics submit their best imagery to Wellcome Trust in the hope of being selected for exhibition. Each year, the judging panel whittle it down to a handful of bobby-dazzlers. This year’s Wellcome Image Awards are (and include) the bee’s-knees.

Honeybee by David McCarthy and Annie Cavanagh.

Adam Rutherford (‘An’ editor at Nature, not ‘The’ editor – as he corrected his introducer), last night presented the awards. About half of the 21 selected images come from London labs, with UCL scooping five (two of which come from Steve Wilson’s zebrafish lab). Perhaps the most remarkable contributor is Spike Walker, a retired schoolteacher who makes photomicrographs in his garage. He picked up four awards this year, taking his all-time haul to over 20. The show includes captures from the microscopic (an identity parade of neurons) to human-sized (surgeons in a high-tech theatre).

Pyramidal neurons by Michael Häusser and Hermann Cuntz, UCL.

The images are free to visit at Wellcome Collection until July. You can view them all in an online gallery, but nothing beats the blown-up, back-lit display at Wellcome.