## Meet the winner of Nikon’s Small World in Motion video contest Ning Xu of Tsinghua University captured tiny cilia beating in airways of a child with rare respiratory disorder. A Chinese optical engineer is the winner of this year’s Small World in Motion competition, sponsored by Nikon. Ning Xu of Tsinghua University in Beijing beat out 346 other video entries from 40 different countries with his super-resolution video (above) of the abnormal beating of cilia in the airways of a child with a rare genetic respiratory disorder. Founded in 2011, the Nikon Small World in Motion competition is a…