Tag Archive for 'Paint'

Researchers Find Surprising Mix of Toxic Pigments in Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa

Oct 12, 2023 by News Staff

An international team of scientists from France, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom has found a singular mixture of strongly saponified oil with high...

Monumental round-oval buildings with their characteristic T-shaped monolithic pillars at Göbekli Tepe, Turkey. Image credit: Nico Becker, Göbekli Tepe Archive, German Archaeological Institute.

11,000-Year-Old Painted Statue of Wild Boar Unearthed at Gobekli Tepe

Oct 9, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Archaeologists in Türkiye (Turkey) have unearthed several ancient statues, including a life-size statue of a wild boar, at Göbekli Tepe, a Neolithic...

$X-ray powder diffraction mapping at multiple length scales revealed the unusual presence of lead(II) formate in several areas of The Night Watch. Image credit: Gonzalez et al., doi: 10.1002/anie.202216478.$

Unusual Lead Compound Detected in Rembrandt’s Most Famous Painting

Jan 31, 2023 by News Staff

The Night Watch, painted in 1642 and on view in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, is considered Rembrandt’s most famous work. In new research, scientists...

An infrared camera shows how a sample of the whitest white paint (the dark purple square in the middle) actually cools the board below ambient temperature, something that not even commercial ‘heat rejecting’ paints do. Image credit: Joseph Peoples / Purdue University.

New Barium Sulfate-Based Paint is Whitest Yet

Apr 20, 2021 by News Staff

The new barium sulfate- (BaSO4) acrylic paint has a solar reflectance of 98.1%, according to a paper published online in the journal ACS Applied Materials...