This week we're showcasing a new bi-monthly program strand from the naked scientists,

which we're making in collaboration with the folks at Diamond, the UK's Synchrotron Light Source.

The programs published on our website at the naked scientist.com slash... The Naked Scientist.

Scientists.com slash Diamond,

and as the Diamond Light Source podcast in iTunes.

Here's the latest episode. From Diamond Light Source, this is the Diamond Podcast.

Welcome to the Diamond Light Source Podcast. In this edition we look into the field of

cultural heritage to see how scientists that Diamond are discovering new ways to

keep our history preserved.

We'll be finding out how Cingretron Light can be used to develop new ways to conserve historical

treasures such as the Mary Rose.

What we tend to look at is either where elements are in a material or the structure of the material itself.

So it will either have something to do with conservation and the way things are surviving or the way they're being

preserved, something like the Mary Rose where they're trying to understand how their conservation treatment

is really working.

Jen Hiller will be discussing the role of cultural heritage at Diamond.

Plus, we learn how scientists are trying to solve a mystery in the art world.

It certainly occurs in paintings.

It's an effect where you get, say, a large area of red paint produced with a million, but it can go from a sort of gray to black color,

and it can be quite patchy, but it's very sort of disfiguring to the appearance of the painting.

Nicholas Eastel will be explaining how his team are looking into this phenomenon to prevent it ruining

major works of art.

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