23. January 2013Matter and Material User Experiments Research
Using Synchrotron Light Interview with Thomas Huthwelker The
Paul Scherrer Institut makes its research facilities available
to scientists from all over the world. To ensure these
scientists are exposed to optimal conditions when they arrive is
the hard work of many PSI staff. An interview with one of these
scientists provides a glimpse behind the scenes. This interview
is taken from the latest issue of the PSI Magazine Fenster zur
Forschung 17. October 2012Media Releases Biology User
Experiments Research Using Synchrotron Light Until recently, it
was not obvious whether the earliest vertebrates (animals with a
backbone) which had jawbones already possessed teeth or not.
Now, an international research team has shown that the jaws of
the prehistoric fish Compagopiscis already had teeth. This means
that teeth appeared at the same evolutionary time as jaws – or
at least shortly afterwards. The leaders of this project were
scientists from the University