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Advanced imaging technology just uncovered romantic graffiti at Pompeii that millions of tourists have walked past for over 230 years. The ancient love messages offer an intimate glimpse into everyday life before Mount Vesuvius changed everything.
An Australian medical device company just secured $27 million to advance breakthrough imaging technology that helps surgeons see cancerous tissue in real time during breast surgery. The innovation could spare thousands of women from having to go back for repeat operations.
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After six decades lost in space history, two teams believe they've located Luna 9, the spacecraft that took the first photos from the moon's surface in 1966. New imaging technology could confirm the discovery as soon as March.
New imaging technology revealed a woman named Erato carved "Erato loves" into a Pompeii wall 2,000 years ago, part of 79 newly discovered inscriptions. The finding shows how ordinary ancient Romans communicated love, jokes, and daily life on public walls.
Scientists in China just cracked a tricky physics problem that could transform everything from cameras to medical imaging. Their breakthrough lets a surface thinner than paper control two types of light completely independently across a rainbow of colors.