Friday October 31 2014   Tereza Pultarova, online news reporter High-tech air-con to save Sistine Chapel art In 2010, curators at the Vatican Museums discovered the famous renaissance frescoes, including the iconic Creation of Adam painted on the chapel’s ceiling by the great master Michelangelo, were rapidly degrading. The 15th century chapel famously holding secretive conclaves where new popes are elected, simply wasn’t designed to handle millions of visitors every year – exhaling carbon dioxide, increasing humidity, sweating and bringing dust. There were two solutions – to close the chapel to the public or to employ cutting-edge engineering skills and … Continue reading E&T news weekly #24 – we choose our favourite engineering and technology news stories from the week