[nevergore]

"Documents such as the Domesday book, Magna Carta and the US Declaration of Independence deteriorate with age as collagen in the conditioned animal skin turns to gelatine"/i>

Well that certainly explains my face the past couple of years.....Pruneface from Dick Tracy comes to mind...

[aruanan]

British Association Festival of Science: Full coverage British scientists are using a giant instrument - in essence an extremely powerful torch and microscope combined - to read parchments that are too brittle to unroll or unfold.

I just get an image of ancient parchment bursting into flame.

[SoCalPol]

The San Diego Natural Hist. Museum has the over $8 million exhibit of on loan of some of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Also many artifacts of the time and great background of the Jewish people who wrote them.

[Coyoteman]

Cool!

[spunkets]

"X-ray beams 10 billion times brighter than the Sun,"

It's not the brighness that's important here, but the fact that the beam is a single frequency and phase, like a laser. That allows sharp holographic imaging, and definitely sharpens diffraction patterns. They'll be able to use in tomography, like a CAT scan.

[theymakemesick]

I don’t suppose mad mo will get a mention in these. BTW, what’s a football pitch?

[wideminded]

Diamond synchatron to use x-rays to examine Dead Sea Scrolls

That's "synchrotron"!

Diamond Light Source website

[VOA]

bump for publicity

[SunkenCiv]

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