News tagged with museum
Japan develops 'touchable' 3D TV technology
A Japanese research team said Thursday it had developed the world's first 3D television system that allows users to touch, pinch or poke images floating in front of them.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Aug 26, 2010 |
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Spinal gap of barbeled dragonfishes mystery solved
(PhysOrg.com) -- The mystery of why a group of deep sea fishes has a gap between their skull and spine has been solved by an international team of scientists, including those at the Natural History Museum.
Aug 17, 2010 |
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Computer scientist saves industry curiosities for museum
In the mid-1980s, as part of his computer business, Bob Roswell began accumulating a surplus of unsold and unwanted computers that he couldn't bring himself to throw away.
Aug 11, 2010 |
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Mosasaur fossil at Natural History Museum of L.A. County re-explores 85-million-year-old sea monster
One of the ocean's most formidable marine predators, the marine mosasaur Platecarpus, lived in the Cretaceous Period some 85 million years ago and was thought to have swum like an eel. That theory is debunk ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Aug 10, 2010 |
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Solving art's mysteries: New technology visualizes how Matisse changed 'Bathers'
Henri Matisse was a painter of vivid colors. From 1913 to 1917, however, he radically changed his style and palette. Collaborators from Northwestern University and The Art Institute of Chicago bring this home with a fascinating ...
Jul 12, 2010 |
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Guggenheim to exhibit videos in YouTube collaboration
The Guggenheim Museum is seeking to discover "the most creative video in the world" in a collaboration with YouTube.
Jun 14, 2010 |
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Race is on for museums to host retired space shuttles
US museums are wasting no time in jostling to showcase the three retiring space shuttles after Atlantis touched down on Earth this week, capping the last scheduled mission of its 25-year career.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 27, 2010 |
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Google Earth tool will provide online WTC access
(AP) -- Online visitors to the World Trade Center site will be able to explore the site with a click of the mouse thanks to a partnership between the National Sept. 11 Memorial & Museum and Google Earth.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
May 26, 2010 |
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Blog follows restoration of Van Gogh artwork
A new blog will allow art lovers to follow the restoration, step by step, of Dutch post impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh's famous "The Bedroom", the Van Gogh Museum said Thursday.
Mar 11, 2010 |
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Ancient Egyptian cosmetics: 'Magical' makeup may have been medicine for eye disease
There's more to the eye makeup that gave Queen Nefertiti and other ancient Egyptian royals those stupendous gazes and legendary beauty than meets the eye. Scientists in France are reporting that the alluring ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Jan 07, 2010 |
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Monument lifted from Cleopatra's underwater city
(AP) -- Archaeologists on Thursday hoisted a 9-ton temple pylon from the waters of the Mediterranean that was part of the palace complex of the fabled Cleopatra before it became submerged for centuries in ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 17, 2009 |
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Bones of T. rex to make museum debut in Oregon
(AP) -- The skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex will make its museum debut at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry along the banks of the Willamette River.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 11, 2009 |
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Interactive digital art show opens in London
The creative side of information technology went on display in London this week, in an arresting new interactive show including glowing reeds and a blinking mechanical eye.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Dec 09, 2009 |
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Google documents Iraqi museum treasures
(AP) -- Google is documenting Iraq's national museum and will post photographs of its ancient treasures on the Internet early next year, Google chief Eric Schmidt announced Tuesday.
Nov 24, 2009 |
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Museum: Galileo's fingers, tooth are found
(AP) -- Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again and will soon be put on display, an Italian museum ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 21, 2009 |
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