Painted Over But Not Forgotten: Restoring Lost Paintings With Radiation And Mathematics

An intrinsic property of paintings, that makes them both wonderful and very annoying, is the fact that they are physical objects. Sometimes they survive across the ages as amazing artifacts …read more Continue reading Painted Over But Not Forgotten: Restoring Lost Paintings With Radiation And Mathematics

Kathleen Lonsdale Saw Through the Structure of Benzene

The unspoken promise of new technologies is that they will advance and enhance our picture of the world — that goes double for the ones that are specifically designed to …read more Continue reading Kathleen Lonsdale Saw Through the Structure of Benzene