New Technique Creates Stunning 3D Images of Live Insects
When taking high-resolution 3D scans of insects, scientists typically have to kill their test subjects, which isn’t…
Incredible CT Scans Show What's Happening Inside A Body In Motion
The next wave of CT scanners combines motion correction technology and organ-wide coverage to limit radiation…
Why NASA Put This Spacesuit Through a CT Scanner
Last year, Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano nearly drowned in his own fluids during a harrowing spacewalk-gone-wrong.…
3-D Imaging Shows a Caterpillar Becoming a Butterfly
For the first time, scientists have taken 3D images of a caterpillar undergoing metamorphosis. And they are amazing.
83 Percent of Radiologists Didn't Spot the Gorilla Hiding in This CT Scan
You've almost certainly seen the dancing gorilla video which demonstrates the theory of change blindness—a phenomenon…
Researchers Use Off-the-Shelf 3D Printer to Custom Grow Bones
When you shatter your kneecap, the surgeon may use an implanted scaffold to coax your bones to knit back together…
Hospitals Are Needlessly Irradiating Their Patients
Medicare outpatient claims for 2008 are showing that thousands of Medicare patients received unnecessary double CT…
Sony Aibo's Pre-Death CAT Scans and X-Rays Emerge
Four years after the Aibo puppy was discontinued, some CAT scans and X-rays have emerged showing two of the models'…
Programming Error Gives People 8 Times Correct Radiation over 18 Months
In attempt to get better data, a hospital overrode default protocol on a CT scanner over a year ago. Now they've…
What Is This?
Hint: Once you know it'll make sense, and no, it's not a trippy visualization for Burning Man.