From the RMS Titanic to the SS Endurance, shipwrecks offer valuable—yet swiftly deteriorating—windows into the past. Conservators slowly dry marine wooden artifacts to preserve them, but doing ...

To better care for delicate marine artifacts, researchers have developed a new hydrogel that quickly neutralizes harmful acids and stabilized waterlogged wood from an 800-year-old shipwreck.

Researchers have developed a material that may help better preserve soggy wood from historic shipwrecks, according to a recent analysis. The research, published in ACS Sustainable Chemistry ...

Wooden relics from shipwrecks are saturated with seawater, creating an environment where acid-producing bacteria and wood-decomposing fungi can flourish. To mitigate damage from acids and microbes, ...

Researchers have developed a hydrogel that melts into and preserves ancient waterlogged wooden artifacts. Without the gel, the artifacts need to be dried, and that risks damaging the relics.

Researchers tested their creation on 800-year-old wood from the Nanhai One, a shipwreck discovered off China’s south coast. They applied hydrogels with varying silver nitrate concentrations to ...

But a new hydrogel developed by researchers in China may offer a much safer option for eradicating harmful microbes and acids in waterlogged shipwreck wood. The novel material, detailed in a study ...

A recent study published in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering reports the development of an innovative hydrogel designed to rapidly neutralize harmful acids and stabilize waterlogged wood from ...

Spanish archaeologists have successfully removed a 2,600-year-old shipwreck from waters off the country's southeastern coast, two decades after the relic was initially found, officials said.

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