Breakthrough Gives 3-D Vision of Dawn of Life

butterwise writes "MSNBC reports that a new scanning technique could revolutionize paleontology. The new technique is allowing researchers a virtual dissection of half-billion-year-old fossilized embryos." From the article: "The Chinese, Swedish, Swiss and British researchers on Donoghue's team used a 1,640-foot-wide (500-meter-wide) particle accelerator in Switzerland to scan the minute fossils, and then fed the information into a computer that generated complete 3-D images of the internal structures in fine detail."

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Here's a phrase you'll never again see on MSNBC.

[!ramirez]

From the article...

"The results are truly orgasmic," Donoghue said.

The whole embryo thing makes that funny on so many levels.