With newly developed technology, medical personnel can manufacture a bandage with drug-delivery capabilities directly onto a wound.
Materials Science
Nov 12, 2019
0
3050
Who exactly were the Aurignacians, who lived in the Levant 40,000 years ago? Researchers from Tel Aviv University, the Israel Antiquities Authority, and Ben-Gurion University now report that these culturally sophisticated ...
Archaeology
Nov 5, 2019
4
1519
The celebrated painter Jackson Pollock created his most iconic works not with a brush, but by pouring paint onto the canvas from above, weaving sinuous filaments of color into abstract masterpieces. A team of researchers ...
General Physics
Oct 30, 2019
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812
Watching paint dry may seem like a boring hobby, but understanding what happens after the paint dries can be key in preserving precious works of art.
Materials Science
Aug 29, 2019
0
49
The structure of ultra-white beetle scales could hold the key to making bright-white sustainable paint using recycled plastic waste, scientists at the University of Sheffield have discovered.
Materials Science
Aug 29, 2019
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232
On a molecular scale, there are surprising similarities between the outer shell of a golf ball and the white oil paint used by Van Gogh and his contemporaries. In both cases, the interactions between zinc ions and polymer ...
Polymers
Jun 24, 2019
0
0
A growth in the use of crystal quartz to make tools thousands of years ago shows the sophistication of ancient communities, according to new research.
Archaeology
May 10, 2019
6
456
An international team, led by an archaeologist from the University of Southampton and the University of Bordeaux, has revealed the first example of Palaeolithic figurative cave art found in the Balkan Peninsula.
Archaeology
Apr 10, 2019
0
2024
Impasto is thick paint laid on the canvas in an amount that makes it stand from the surface. The relief of impasto increases the perceptibility of the paint by increasing its light-reflecting textural properties. Scientists ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jan 15, 2019
0
342
What's a feast for the human eye may be a literal feast for microorganisms that colonize works of art, according to a new study in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Elisabetta Caselli of the University of Ferrara, Italy, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 5, 2018
0
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