Archimedes Manuscript Yields Secrets Under X-ray Gaze

"For five days in May, the ancient collided with the ultra-modern (pics at link) at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), bringing brilliant, long-hidden ideas to light with brilliant X-ray light. A synchrotron X-ray beam at the Department of Energy facility illuminated an obscured work--erased, written over and even painted over--of ancient mathematical genius Archimedes, born 287 B.C. in Sicily." (full article at the doohickey)

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