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The Vesuvius Challenge announced its grand prize winners, who turned to AI to recover the contents of a damaged ancient scroll that survived the volcanic blast.

Ancient Roman scrolls that got "flash-fried" and buried when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, dubbed the Herculaneum Papyri, have recently been decoded by three students using AI.

AI helps decipher the text of a 2,000-year-old scroll burned at Pompeii

The new techniques could help rediscover lost works from antiquity | Science & technology

A citizen science experiment has seen 110 UK secondary schools, including one in Didcot, work together to produce findings set to be published in a…

Celebrating World Science day during November, a study has emphasised the success of the COVID Moonshot Consortium’s use of crowd sourcing and Open Science to accelerate its discovery of both a potent SARS-CoV-2 antiviral lead compound and the launch  of a patent-free antiviral discovery program for rapid lead development in response to a pandemic emergency. Click to read more...

A new five-year agreement that will strengthen links between the UK’s national synchrotrons and industry using microscopy at the UK's pioneering electron Physical Science Imaging Centre (ePSIC), in Harwell, Oxfordshire, has been announced today (Dec 19) by Diamond Lightsource and Johnson Matthey, a global leader in sustainable technologies. Click to read more...

London, UK (SPX) Dec 18, 2023 - Diamond Light Source, the United Kingdoms national synchrotron science facility, is set to embark on a novel analysis of samples from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, using its unique Dual Imaging an

After a spectacular journey, a grain from asteroid Bennu will be brought to the Diamond Light Source, the UK's national synchrotron, for scientific

A possible cause of the 'strange' behavior of cuprates, special superconductor materials made of copper and oxygen which could in future bring down waste in the distribution of electricity, has been revealed. (ANSA)