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We are pleased to announce two new projects that have been awarded funding from the Small Project Grants funding scheme.

Talk That Science is a brandnew podcast that aims to narrow the gap between science and society through music.

A microscope used by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to conduct pioneering research contains a surprisingly ordinary lens, as new research by Rijksmuseum Boerhaave Leiden and TU Delft shows.

We would like to invite you to the PhD defense of Francesca di Cicco on May 19th, 17.00 hrs CET.

The new article 'Integrating expert feedback on the spot in a time-efficient explorative CT scanning workflow for cultural heritage objects' has been published by researchers of the CT for Art project.

On Wednesday 3 March 2021, at 13:00hrs CET, Selwin Hageraats will defend his PhD thesis Developing Microchemical Imaging for the Study of Pigment Degradation in Oil Paint.

On Wednesday January 27th at 14:00 (CET) Indra Kneepkens will defend her PhD thesis, titled: Masterful Mixtures: Practical aspects of fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century oil paint formulation.

Researchers of the NICAS partner project 'Fundamental Molecular Understanding of Oil Painting Degradation' have published a new article where they use infrared spectroscopy to follow the fate of zinc ions in zinc white paint films.

New publications available from NICAS research projects 'Back to the Objects' and 'Assessing Islamic Carpet Production'.

NICAS is an advisory partner of a new SBMK project on the preservation of modern photographic works of art in museum collections.