Field Museum to use X-ray machine to scan priceless specimens
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CHICAGO Researchers say a new X-ray machine will help unlock mysteries inside some of the Field Museum&#39;s collection of mummies, fossils and pottery.
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A mummified dinosaur discovered on the Hi-Line is heading to the Houston Museum of Natural Sciences, where it will be studied and displayed for more than a year.
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Pencil and paper are so last-century. New software developed by international researchers can create and manipulate 3-D models of ancient inscribed artifacts.
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The Brooklyn Museum has set out all, or a great many, of its jaw-dropping objects or artworks for our delectation in its new open-storage display.
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Sensors will be used to relay data to medical files.
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NXP Software has brought out a tool that can geo-tag images photographed with digital cameras so that users can more easily search, share and view photo collections.
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By Vanessa Thomas  Imagine a laboratory filled with equipment advanced enough to locate deleted child pornography on a hard drive, recover old e- mails sent on a cell phone and trace the owner of a camera used to download photographs onto a laptop.
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For those who find the vast array of high-tech hardware that fills the National Air and Space Museum overwhelming -- not to mention the constant hordes that fill the cavernous expanse -- a more serene and equally informative scientific experience is available less than a mile away at the largely...
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Perched on the shore of Boston Harbor, the first new art museum built in Boston in nearly a century is preparing to open with a collection of modern painting, sculpture, photography and video.
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The Mountain View company unveiled the free technology Thursday that allows users to simultaneously scan the Web and their computer hard drives for documents, e-mail, instant messages and the sites they&#39;ve visited in the past.
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Dark-field x-ray imaging could make for more-accurate mammograms and better security screens.
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Amputation saws, sex aids and works of art by Leonardo da Vinci and Andy Warhol are among the items on display at a new medical museum previewed in London Wednesday.
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CT scanners used for decades to peer inside humans are now being trained by scientists on hardwood trees to detect knots, cracks and other imperfections in a bid to help lumber mills make the best possible cuts of valuable logs.
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The intimate exhibit at the Frick Collection makes clear that the artist was brilliant at capturing mammals and humans, offering meticulous attention to figures and details.
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X-ray vision has brought astronomers closer than ever to completely characterizing a black hole, a place where strange things happen.
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The works at the Broad Contemporary Art Museum are intended to reflect Eli Broadâs penchant for collecting in depth. But the accumulation reads foremost as a display of pricey trophies.
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The technology  resembles the ultrasounds used by doctors to inspect a woman's  womb. But a team of scientists are using it to map rocks deep  below the Earth's surface to hunt for oil and gas.