X-ray

Scientists can use X-rays to reconstruct text from ancient, fragile scrolls without touching the artifacts.

In June 1962, an Aerobee 150 sounding-rocket blasted above the Earth’s atmosphere from the White Sands Missile Range in the United States of America.

Richard Johnson can see right through the masterpieces of Rembrandt and Van Gogh.

For more than 100 years, scientists have “peered” at atoms in a crystal by analysing the way they scatter X-rays.