An alien-like species of lobopodian is the first known example of evolutionary reversion. Scientists writing in Current Biology explained the creature discarded its back limbs for a simpler, and ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. For decades, X-ray computer tomography (CT) scanning has enabled scientists to noninvasively ...

Computer Tomography (CT) is a standard procedure in hospitals, but so far, the technology has not been suitable for imaging extremely small objects. In PNAS, a team from the Technical University of ...

A peculiar worm-like creature from 518 million years ago is the oldest animal known to have lost body parts it no longer needed. Just as modern cave-dwelling organisms have evolved reduced eyes, the ...

A new lab-based computed tomography (CT) technique enables scientists to produce high-resolution images of the surface and interior of samples without using a particle accelerator. The non-destructive ...

M. Müller et al., “Myoanatomy of the velvet worm leg revealed by laboratory-based nanofocus X-ray source tomography,” PNAS, doi:10.1073/pnas.1710742114, 2017.

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The new nano computer tomography device creates three-dimensional x-ray images at resolutions up to 100 nanometers. The first test object was the locomotor system of the velvet worm – to be seen in ...