Entomologists use a particle accelerator to image ants at scale
Elie Dolgin • March 5, 2026
The detailed scans could inspire robots and biomechanical designs.
Move over, Pixar. The ants that animators once morphed into googly-eyed caricatures in films such as A Bug’s Life and Antz just received a meticulously precise anatomical reboot.
Writing today in Nature Methods, an international team of entomologists, accelerator physicists, computer scientists, and biological-imaging specialists describe a new 3D atlas of ant morphology.
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In January 2025, Linda-Gail Bekker stood inside a vaccine manufacturing plant and allowed herself to believe that the first HIV vaccine candidate conceived through African science and led by Africans might finally become a reality. Continue reading at V ox .
Enhanced cryo–electron microscopy promises to bring previously elusive proteins into view.