Very nice science. Robert Hooke would be most impressed. There is an elegant mastery of space and time here where they can interchange them freely to come up with a result that makes sense.
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A tangent off in the weeds: There appear to be no legs on the fly in the pictures. I presume some lab technician is tasked with pulling the legs off of flies. Who knew that would be a job skill?
The flies legs were not pulled off as far as I know (I can ask tomorrow). It's simply that the field of view of the microtomographic setup is not big enough to have the whole fly in it (at this magnification and speed). I.e. the sample is bigger than the FOV, which we call "local tomography".
This is really an animated CT scan of a restrained house fly, studying the mechanisms of its ability to propel itself through the air and maneuver during flight.
The video is really cool:
http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/files.figshare.com/1434931...
