"Revealing letters in rolled Herculaneum papyri by X-ray phase-contrast imaging"
It's bizarre that BBC calls X-rays "photon beams," like something out of Star Trek. Maybe using X-rays to read rolled-up scrolls doesn't sound so amazing? (The details of how they did it are amazing; this is not your grandpa's X-ray imaging system.)
http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/150120/ncomms6895/full/nco...
"Revealing letters in rolled Herculaneum papyri by X-ray phase-contrast imaging"
It's bizarre that BBC calls X-rays "photon beams," like something out of Star Trek. Maybe using X-rays to read rolled-up scrolls doesn't sound so amazing? (The details of how they did it are amazing; this is not your grandpa's X-ray imaging system.)