Forensics teams working within police departments frequently need to analyze and identify samples for various reasons. For example, chips of paint can often be deposited at the scene of a crime and ...

The bright colors in most paints come from pigments. But over time these paints often lose their color, and some pigments can be toxic in certain applications. Now, researchers have developed a method ...

Paints are one of the oldest synthetic substances known to man, dating back to the prehistoric times where they were used to depict scenes on cave walls. Today, paints are used both to add color and ...

The paint pigment, which makes a striking blue colour highly valued by artists, is believed to date back to around 900AD and is said to be the earliest of its kind in the world. The 1,100-year-old ...

My husband and I recently bought a house built just after World War II with rooms stuck in nearly every decade since. I couldn't wait to get my hands on it and make it our own. However, picking the ...