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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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‘Birth of science’: Particle accelerator decodes ancient Greek star map hidden in text
Ancient Greek astronomers made important observations regarding the night sky long before the first ...
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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 ...
Since the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory powered up its "linac" half a century ago, the 2-mile-long particle accelerator has driven a large number of successful research ...
The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, originally named Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, is a United States Department of Energy National Laboratory operated by Stanford University under the ...
MENLO PARK, Calif. (KGO) -- An incredible one-week experience just wrapped up for more than 20 local kids. Each of them got to spend time at one of the most advanced laboratories in the world for a ...
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