(PhysOrg.com) -- Antique books in the Vatican Library are being digitised to preserve them for future generations using a technique developed through ESA to store satellite images of the sky.
Other
Dec 19, 2011
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EPL (Europhysics Letters) has today gone beyond Earthly limits by publishing its first ever paper submitted from space.
General Physics
Nov 11, 2011
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Ancient manuscripts that hold important clues to India’s intellectual and religious traditions will be the focus of a new study.
Other
Nov 9, 2011
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The manuscript seems straight out of fiction: a strange handwritten message in abstract symbols and Roman letters meticulously covering 105 yellowing pages, hidden in the depths of an academic archive.
Computer Sciences
Oct 25, 2011
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Two thousand years after they were written and decades after they were found in desert caves, some of the world-famous Dead Sea Scrolls went online for the first time on Monday in a project launched by Israel's national museum ...
Archaeology
Sep 26, 2011
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Researchers may now search and browse the Wellcome Library’s Arabic manuscripts using groundbreaking functionalities in a new online resource that brings together rich descriptive information and exceptionally detailed ...
Other
Jul 28, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Cambridge University manuscript specialist, Dr. Chip Coakley has identified what may be the world’s earliest example of a question mark. The symbol in question is two dots, one above the other, similar ...
Other
Jul 22, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- While enthusiasts across the world pored over the Voynich manuscript, one of the most mysterious writings ever found – penned by an unknown author in a language no one understands – a research team ...
Archaeology
Feb 10, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Technology is to enable scholars for the first time to study a complete manuscript of one of the world’s most important and largest Korans.
Other
Jan 19, 2011
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While in Houghton Library, sorting through stacks of old manuscripts and letters from the great naturalist Charles Darwin, history of science graduate student Myrna Perez and lecturer Alistair Sponsel stumbled across something ...
Evolution
Dec 17, 2010
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