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Science’s war on art fraud In 2016 a team of scientists led by David Thurrowgood of the National Gallery of Victoria took a painting by French impressionist Edgar Degas to the Australian Synchrotron in order to solve a long-standing mystery.Art experts had previously noted that the artwork, Portrait de Femme (1876-1880) had been painted directly over a previous composition. Faint traces of the earlier work were visible but the piece was otherwise completely obscured – probably as the artist intended. Thurrowgood and the team at the Synchrotron, in the Melbourne suburb of Clayton, used high-definition X-ray fluorescence (XRF) to penetrate...

I can’t wear Charlotte Tilbury Ecstasy blush without thinking of mid-90s club banger Set U Free. The way the lead singer breathlessly enunciates the word, “ecstasy,” about a billion times… Welcome to the decade of my formative years. Anywho…while I like how long this satiny, peachy pink blush stays on my cheeks, the main thing I love about $40 Ecstasy blush is that I can get it on my cheeks in three minutes, which is about how much time I typically have while Coy-Coy uses the potty, so I can walk out the front door looking like I actually slept...

Blueberry hermit crab- Ryukyu Islands Blueberry hermit crab (Coenobita purpureus) with cap Blueberry hermit crab (Coenobita purpureus) in plastic tube Blueberry hermit crab (Coenobita purpureus) in plastic top cap Blueberry hermit crab (Coenobita purpureus) in plastic Blueberry hermit crabs (Coenobita purpureus) in plastic cap Blueberry hermit crabs (Coenobita purpureus) in plastic top cap Hermit crabs living in trash homes.Credit: Shawn Miller - Okinawa Nature Photographyht Atlas Obscura

As I was flipping through the March issue of Allure (to be honest…I was procrastinating, LOL!), this beautiful picture stopped me in my tracks. The woman’s name is Maye Musk (Elon’s mom), and the caption says she’s a model, muse and truth-teller (hyphenated!). I can’t remember the last time I saw a picture of someone in Allure, or really any big beauty magazine, with real “experience lines.” How awesome is this? I mean, it’s a magazine, so I wouldn’t be surprised if there were still some Photoshopping happening, but you can actually see everything — the texture of her skin,...

Southern night sky over the Residencia “hotel” at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile The night sky without light pollution over Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert Constellation Orion rises above Bridge Mountain, Zion National Park Aurora appearing in the night sky at the Kjell Henriksen Observatory in Svalbard, Norway Comet streaks over a swamp in South Australia The sky from Earth.Caption&SourcesWikimedia Commons:1.- Southern night sky over the Residencia “hotel” at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. Credit: ESO2.- The night sky without light pollution over Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert. Credit: ESO3.- Constellation Orion rises above Bridge Mountain, Zion National Park by Joe Parks.Phys.org:4.- Aurora...