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‘Project Hail Mary’ brings a new kind of alien to the big screen

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Building a digital ant gallery, from the ground up

A project called Antscan has generated high resolution images of thousands of ants, representing over 700 species. To make it happen, researchers brought preserved ants from collections around the world to a particle accelerator in Germany. There, a powerful synchrotron X-ray sou ...  Show more

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