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Medieval monks wrote over a copy of an ancient star catalog. Now, a particle accelerator is revealing the long-lost original text
A little more than a thousand years ago, monks at Saint Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt’s Sinai desert removed Western ...
Synchrotron radiation has revealed a star map made by the ancient astronomer Hipparchus that was thought to be lost to time ...
Researchers are using X-rays to discover invisible markings left on ancient parchment containing information from the Greek ...
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Scientists Deciphered Humanity’s Earliest Star Map. It Had Literally Been Erased From History.
Researchers using a synchrotron at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have been able to recover pieces of the ...
Using powerful X-rays, researchers at SLAC are trying to recover erased traces of a 2,000-year-old star catalog that could ...
As the Dark Energy Survey (DES) releases its final results, we caught up with two physicists who've been involved in the ...
SLAC researchers used X-ray beams and the particle accelerator to recover the work of an ancient astronomer, who made the earliest known attempt to log the stars.
A particle accelerator's $1 billion upgrade could lead to improvements in electronic gear. Also in SLAC's sights: better batteries and cancer treatments. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...
Water doesn’t behave the same way in a glass as it does as ice in your freezer. When water is heated to several thousand ...
Come visit the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (usually called SLAC), on the edge of the Stanford University campus, to learn about the inner workings of its 2-mile-long accelerator, which is ...
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