More than 11,000 drawings made 125 years ago were stashed away for years. They have been meticulously restored, and some will ...

An 1851 ink-and-watercolor gift drawing titled A Type of Mother Hannah’s Pocket Handkerchief by Polly Jane Reed, a Shaker in New Lebanon, New York. Andrews Collection, Hancock Shaker Village, ...

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Earlier this year, a woman in Pennsylvania bought a nude charcoal sketch for $12 at a local art auction. Something about the depicted woman’s downward gaze, the hang of flesh around her waist seemed ...

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At a time when GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) reception face growing threats from jamming and spoofing, having a navigation system that doesn’t solely rely on satellite signals has become ...

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A team of physicists and engineers at the CU Boulder has discovered a new way to measure the orientation of magnetic fields using what may be the tiniest compasses around—atoms. The group’s findings ...

Artist's depiction of a new strategy for measuring the direction of magnetic fields by exposing a cell containing roughly a hundred billion rubidium atoms to a microwave signal. A team of physicists ...