Exploding wires open sharp X-ray eye

Some coffee-table books feature hair-raising microscopic views of insects, dust mites, and other minimonsters. Taken with optical and electron microscopes, those pictures typically show only surface features of their subjects. Now, a novel X-ray camera peers into the interiors of tiny creatures and objects with micrometer-scale resolution over exceptionally large areas.

In a flash, a novel X-ray camera spots micrometer-scale features (detailed below) all across this millimeter-wide fruit fly.