News tagged with last supper

Saving Da Vinci's Last Supper from air pollution

Having survived long centuries, political upheaval, and even bombings during World War II, Leonardo Da Vinci's masterpiece Last Supper now faces the risk of damage from air pollution due to its location in ...

Chemistry / Other

created Nov 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The penultimate supper?

The Last Supper, which millions of Christians will mark on Maundy Thursday as Easter begins this week, actually took place on a Wednesday, a groundbreaking study is to reveal.

Other Sciences / Other

created Apr 18, 2011 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 19

Leonardo Da Vinci's 'The Last Supper' reveals more secrets

The Last Supper - relentlessly studied, scrutinized, satirized and one the world's most famous paintings - is still revealing secrets. Researchers Olivier Bauer, Nancy Labonté, Jonas Saint-Martin and ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Mar 31, 2010 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (26) | comments 84 | with audio podcast




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Online video distributors gather to court advertisers

Yahoo Inc. staged its glitzy presentation for advertisers in a theater near Central Park, with appearances by Katie Couric, "CSI" creator Anthony E. Zuiker and, via video, Tom Hanks.

Technology / Internet

created May 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Finding is a feather in the cap for researchers studying birds' big, powerful eyes

Say what you will about bird brains, but our feathered friends sure have us -- and all the other animals on the planet -- beat in the vision department, and that has a bit to do with how their brains develop.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jun 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Russia releases Gagarin's secret last words

One of the last things Yuri Gagarin did before making his pioneering voyage into space 50 years ago was make sure he had enough sausage to last him on the trip back home to Moscow.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 10, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (19) | comments 18

FTC proposes 'Do Not Track' tool for Web surfers (Update 2)

(AP) -- Federal regulators are proposing to create a "Do Not Track" tool for the Internet so that consumers could prevent marketers from tracking their Web browsing habits and other online behavior in order to target advertising.

Technology / Internet

created Dec 01, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Italians think they have found Caravaggio's bones

Italian researchers believe they have found the remains of Caravaggio, but 400 years later some of the mysteries surrounding the death of the artist may never be solved.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jun 16, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Growing by Biblical portions: Last Supper paintings over Millennium depict growing appetites

The sizes of the portions and plates in more than four dozen depictions of the Last Supper - painted over the past 1,000 years - have gradually grown bigger and bigger, according to a Cornell University study ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Mar 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Scientists find 'Lucky Luke' of the seas

Could you filter 100,000 cubic metres of syrup every day to find food in a concentration of two grains of rice per cubic metre?

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Amish newspaper succeeds the old-fashioned way

(AP) -- The writers' grievances came in the form of angry letters, carried over bumpy rural roads to the newspaper office serving the Amish community.

Technology / Internet

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The last supper of the hominids establishes the times they lived at the sites

In the French cave of Arago, an international team of scientists has analyzed the dental wear of the fossils of herbivorous animals hunted by Homo heidelbergensis. It is the first time that an analytical method ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Oetzi's last supper

What we eat can say a lot about us – where we live, how we live and eventually even when we lived. From the analysis of the intestinal contents of the 5,200-year-old Iceman from the Eastern Alps, Professor James Dickson from ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 01, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (23) | comments 3


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