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Agar gives Milan's cathedral a sponge down Removing salt and soot deposits from historical stone monuments and buildings just got a lot simpler thanks to Italian researchers who have developed a cleaning method that uses harmless agar gel to absorb dirt like a sponge. |
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Renaissance artworks analysed Researchers have combined two ion-beam analysis techniques to obtain more detailed information about the composition of paints used in Renaissance works of art. |
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Martin Cooper: Makeovers for Masterpieces How this former physics major now uses lasers and computer modeling to restore, replicate, and catalog public monuments, museum art, and private collections. |
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New Superabsorbents to Clean up Future Oil Spills Chemists in Japan have developed a new class of superabsorbent polymers that can swell to hundreds of times their weight by soaking up nonpolar organic solvents. |
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X-ray emitting bacterial plasmas could enhance imaging The possibility of using engineered bacteria as x-ray plasma sources, which could significantly improve resolution in medical and molecular imaging. |
