image: Scanning helium ion micrograph showing the crystal growth process in stony corals. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the June 2, 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by S. Von Euw at Rutgers University in Piscataway, NJ, and colleagues was titled, 'Biological control of aragonite formation in stony corals.' view more
Credit: These images were collected by Viacheslav Manichev and Stanislas Von Euw using the Scanning Helium Ion Microscope (SHIM) at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ