And the winner is ...

The winners of the Niche Prize, a competition held by the Royal Institution of Great Britain in partnership with Nature, have been announced. The winning works will be displayed in two wall niches on the ground floor of the institution in London, which reopens to the public in August. The Malaria Lifecycle (detail, right), by Australian visual designer Drew Berry, is a scientifically accurate animation of the malaria parasite invading a human host. Faraday's Magnetoscape (above) by Ken Skeldon, a research fellow at the University of Glasgow, UK, allows viewers to generate colour patterns by passing a magnet near the screen of a cathode-ray-style computer monitor, celebrating Michael Faraday's discovery of electromagnetic induction at the Royal Institution some 180 years ago.