The Lycurgus Cup’s colour trick has a modern recipe, without solving every Roman mystery
A Sheffield technician has reproduced the red-green effect in workable glass. The sculpture shows why the direction of light matters.
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Perseverance finds the Mars dust that keeps clinging to spacesuit materials
Years of observations reveal persistent fine particles on calibration samples. The findings inform contamination control, not a measured astronaut exposure limit.