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Scientists are reporting the use of a new X-ray imaging technique to reveal for the first time in a century unprecedented details of a painting hidden beneath another painting by famed American illustrator N.C. (Newell Convers) Wyeth. The non-destructive look-beneath-the-surface method could reveal hidden images in hundreds of Old Master paintings and other prized works of art, the researchers say. See corresponding news release, abstract, and nontechnical summary for COLL 461.Jennifer L. Mass, Ph.D., Department of Art Conservation, University of Delaware, Newark, Del.