The images and animations in this article are amazing. I’ve never seen anything like it.

Entomologists Use a Particle Accelerator to Image Ants at Scale https://flip.it/XJprtZ

#ants #enthomology cc @futurebird

Antscan's 3D Scanning Reveals Ant Anatomy

How does a particle accelerator help us understand ants like never before?

IEEE Spectrum
@wtrmt @futurebird On a semi-related note, the Berlin Naturkundemuseum has a fantastic giant model of an ant eating some honeydew that I spent quite a bit of time looking at. The ant is about the size of a beagle and beautifully detailed.

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Would be nice to get more biographical details of the artist added into the entry at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Keller_(sculptor)

Alfred Keller (sculptor) - Wikipedia