Month: May 2023

Beer brewing by-products to prepare canvases in the Danish Golden Age

Proteins from cereal grains and yeast were found in the ground layer of paintings produced in Denmark in the early 19th century by two of the best known artists from the Golden Age of Danish Painting: Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg and Christen Schiellerup Købke. These proteins probably indicate the use of a beer brewing (by-)product for …

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Dr. Mojca Ramšak: Anthropology of Smell and Chemistry

Please join us for the invited talk by Dr. Mojca Ramšak on Anthropology of smell and chemistry, on Tuesday, 6 June 2023 at 13:00 in the large lecture hall of the first floor of the National Institute of Chemistry, Hajdrihova ulica 19, Ljubljana. The talk will be in Slovenian. About the talk: The anthropology of smell examines socially and culturally …

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Breakthrough: NIR and Machine Learning for Dating of Historical Books

Heritage scientists can now accurately date historical paper using just infrared light and complex computational analysis. In a piece of research published in the top-tier Journal of the American Chemical Society, the post-doctoral researcher dr. Floriana Coppola and colleagues have shown that exceptional dating accuracy is possible of only 2 years – this is not …

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