How neutron imaging uncovers hidden secrets of fossils and artifacts

The subatomic particles can find things other imaging techniques can’t

An illustration of a blue beam representing neutron imaging uncovering a bone from a large slab of rock.

In this artist’s imagining of an ancient fossil embedded in rock, neutron imaging uncovers a hidden bone.

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Shattered crocodile. Formally, Confractosuchus.