Progress in high-resolution X-ray microtomography has provided us with a practical
approach to determining three-dimensional (3D) structures of opaque samples at …

Albert Einstein once said “look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything
better”. Looking deep into nature has in the last few years become much more achievable …

Gears are found rarely in animals and have never been reported to intermesh and rotate
functionally like mechanical gears. We now demonstrate functional gears in the ballistic …

Indirect X-ray detectors are of outstanding importance for high resolution imaging, especially
at synchrotron light sources: while consisting mostly of components which are widely …

The interaction of an object with a coherent probe often encodes its properties in a complex-
valued function, which is then detected in an intensity-only measurement. Phase retrieval …

Scientific cinematography using ultrafast optical imaging is a common tool to study motion.
In opaque organisms or structures, X-ray radiography captures sequences of 2D projections …

Small organisms use propulsive springs rather than muscles to repeatedly actuate high
acceleration movements, even when constrained to tiny displacements and limited by …

X-ray imaging enables the study of morphodynamic and physiological processes in living
organisms. However, the required photon flux increases with the desired spatial resolution …

Digital surface mesh models based on segmented datasets have become an integral part of
studies on animal anatomy and functional morphology; usually, they are published as static …

A current trend observed in the Anthropocene is the search for bioinspired solutions. Since it
became possible to change the quality of the boundary between living and technical …