Researchers leveraged advanced technologies and artificial intelligence to hasten the process of generating 2,000 3D digital ant images. Now, a class of UMD computer science majors is working to bring ...

For more than a decade, Evan Economo's lab has been using micro-CT machines to scan insect specimens. The resulting X-ray images help researchers study the form and structure of insects—a subfield of ...

Using a synchrotron powered CT scanner, the Antscan project created an open-source digital library cataloguing thousands of ...

A new high-tech scanning system is rapidly turning thousands of ants into stunning 3D models—building a digital library of ...

The Antscan database captures the tiny insects’ diversity and shows how the world’s living things could be rendered in three dimensions.