Lightning first struck Mas Subramanian over 15 years ago. When he and his graduate student Andrew Smith put a mixture of rather mundane powders into the lab oven at Oregon State University, the pair ...
CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) -- An Oregon State University chemistry researcher who made history a decade ago with the accidental discovery of the first new blue inorganic pigment in more than two centuries ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Azurite traces on a Final Palaeolithic stone from Germany suggest Ice Age people used blue pigments, likely on skin or fabrics now ...
CORVALLIS, Oregon (KTVZ) – An Oregon State University researcher who made color history in 2009 with a vivid blue pigment has developed durable, reddish magentas inspired by lunar mineralogy and ...
Whether ultramarine, cerulean, Egyptian or cobalt, blue pigments have colored artworks for centuries. Now, seemingly out of the blue, scientists have discovered a new blue pigment that uses less ...
When archaeologists brushed away the dirt from a prehistoric artifact in Germany, they were startled to see a shimmer of extremely rare color. Clinging to the stone’s surface were flecks of deep, ...
A smudge of blue on an ordinary-looking stone has forced archaeologists to rethink what Ice Age people in Europe could see, make, and value. At the Final Palaeolithic site of Mühlheim-Dietesheim in ...