Microsoft Paint brushed aside
Microsoft on Monday announced the end of days for its pioneering Paint application as it focuses on software for 3-D drawing.
Microsoft on Monday announced the end of days for its pioneering Paint application as it focuses on software for 3-D drawing.
Software
Jul 24, 2017
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Researchers have developed a solar paint that can absorb water vapour and split it to generate hydrogen - the cleanest source of energy.
Materials Science
Jun 14, 2017
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When we look at a painting, how do we know it's a genuine piece of art?
Optics & Photonics
May 15, 2017
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Touch sensing is most common on small, flat surfaces such as smartphone or tablet screens. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, however, can turn surfaces of a wide variety of shapes and sizes into touchpads using tools ...
Engineering
May 8, 2017
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Considered the pinnacle of mediaeval painting, the Ghent Altarpiece was painted around 1432 by Jan van Eyck and probably his brother Hubert. It is currently undergoing the most extensive conservation treatment for more than ...
Analytical Chemistry
Apr 3, 2017
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Now automotive body paint jobs get a major boost from the rapidly emerging field of terahertz (THz) technology used to improve the precision and quality control of layered paint coatings.
Optics & Photonics
Jul 12, 2016
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The scratch was deep, two feet long, and spattered with paint flecks. Another vehicle had clearly grazed the side of Duke graduate student Jin Yu's silver Honda Accord.
Analytical Chemistry
Jun 8, 2016
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Archaeologists at the University of York have undertaken pioneering scans of the highest prehistoric paintings of animals in Europe.
Archaeology
May 26, 2016
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Inside a drop of paint, light is scattered so often that it seems impossible to demonstrate quantum effects. But despite the thousands of possible paths the light can take, like a drunk person inside a labyrinth, researchers ...
Quantum Physics
May 12, 2016
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It is one of the most famous paintings in American history: Christina's World, by Andrew Wyeth. The painting, which hangs in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, depicts a young woman in a field, gazing at a farmhouse on ...
Other
May 6, 2016
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