News tagged with sculpture
Metal composition hold key to identity of modern sculptures
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Jul 30, 2009 |
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How do you tell when, where and how a Picasso or a Matisse sculpture was cast? Could bronze sculptures have their very own DNA?
2000-year-old statue of an athlete sheds light on corrosion, other modern challenges
Jul 08, 2009 |
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The restoration of a 2,000-year-old bronze sculpture of the famed ancient Greek athlete Apoxyomenos may help modern scientists understand how to prevent metal corrosion, discover the safest ways to permanently ...
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Remains of Minoan-style painting discovered during excavations of Canaanite palace
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 09, 2009 |
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The remains of a Minoan-style wall painting, recognizable by a blue background, the first of its kind to be found in Israel, was discovered in the course of the recent excavation season at Tel Kabri. This fresco joins others ...
Visualizing the Aztecs
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Anyone who has visited the ancient ruins of great civilizations can appreciate the difficulty of visualizing the buildings at their peak. Today's visitor to the British Museum can see structures ...
Organ donors -- and recipients -- are aging
Sep 22, 2009 |
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At 84 years old, Juan Guano would seem an unlikely candidate for a kidney transplant.
Early Bronze Age grave discovered in Perthshire
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Aug 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Archaeologists have discovered a spectacular Early Bronze Age grave at the Scottish Royal centre at Forteviot.
Glittering and glinting, the world's biggest diamond structure heads to the West End, UK
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The largest representation ever created of the atomic structure of diamond will be brought to the West End on Tuesday for public exhibition. The sculpture is one of three works of science art portraying carbon ...
'Monster' solar eclipse takes on Asian giants
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 20, 2009 |
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The world's most populous nations will gaze skywards Wednesday as the longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century lays a carpet of darkness across India and China, from Mumbai to Shanghai.
Ivory sculpture in Germany could be world's oldest
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The 2008 excavations at Hohle Fels Cave in the Swabian Jura of southwestern Germany recovered a female figurine carved from mammoth ivory from the basal Aurignacian deposit. This figurine, ...
Review: Looking for gems in iPhone's game library
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Apr 28, 2009 |
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Nintendo has owned the portable video-game market - first with the Game Boy, now with the DS - for so long that most of us gave up hope of ever seeing a viable competitor. But it's become impossible to ignore ...
Researchers use CT to examine hidden face in Nefertiti bust
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Mar 31, 2009 |
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Using CT imaging to study a priceless bust of Nefertiti, researchers have uncovered a delicately carved face in the limestone inner core and gained new insights into methods used to create the ancient masterpiece ...
Second Life finding new life
Mar 14, 2009 |
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Linden Lab chief executive Mark Kingdon shakes his head when he sees news stories heralding the demise of former Internet darling Second Life.
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