The winners of the European Microscopy Outstanding Paper Awards for papers published in 2024 are:

1. Instrumentation and Technique Development.
*J. C. Thiele, *E. Pfitzner and P. Kukura. Single-protein optical holography. Nature Photonics 18, 388–395 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-024-01405-2

2. Materials Sciences.
L. Zhang, M. H. Raza, R. Wu, K. Gruel, C. Dubourdieu, M. Hÿtch and C. Gatel. Quantification of interfacial charges in multilayered nanocapacitors by operando electron holography. Advanced Materials 37(4), 2413691 (2025)^#. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202413691
^#(first published online: November 25, 2024)

3. Life Sciences.
*P. B. Klar, *D. G. Waterman, *T. Gruene, D. Mullick, Y. Song, J. B. Gilchrist, C. D. Owen, W. Wen, I. Biran, L. Houben, N. Regev-Rudzki, R. Dzikowski, N. Marom, L. Palatinus, P. Zhang, L. Leiserowitz and M. Elbaum. Cryo-tomography and 3D electron diffraction reveal the polar habit and chiral structure of the malaria pigment crystal hemozoin. ACS Central Science 10(8), 1504–1514 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.4c00162

*equal contribution