Scientists in Japan developed a new type of plaster which they say is capable of filtering more than 99% of caesium of contaminated water. The new building material uses zeolite powder instead of ...

Also included are more than 60 plaster casts of architectural evidence, including blueprints, photographs, drawings, correspondence and contractors' bills. It's not just an artifact, it's a lesson ...

Object Details maker L. Brill Description This white plaster model of a catenoid has a round flat base and top and is indented at the center. The catenoid is a minimal surface, and the surface of ...

Object Details maker L. Brill Description In 1881, Gottlieb Herting, then a student in the technical high school in Munich where he worked under the direction of Alexander Brill, designed a set of ...

The 200-year-old plaster model, whose marble counterpart resides in the Borghese Gallery in Rome, has a history of persevering through disaster.