The pair’s creations were striking: An x-ray image of broken ribs emitted the lilt of Russian tango. A Broadway show tune quavered from a dislocated pelvis. A human skull was the morbid backdrop ...

“I have seen my death,” exclaimed Anna Röntgen in mid-November, 1895. She had just seen the first ever human X-ray image — a picture of her own hand revealing the bones beneath the fles ...

NGM MAPS. Source: “spatial and temporal changes in cumulative human impacts on the world’s ocean,” Ben S. Halpern and others, Nature Communications; UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected ...

What are X rays ... through the human body and produce shadow-like images of bones and some organs. The images can reveal signs of disease and injury. X rays are used in medicine in procedures such as ...