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Ensuring the effective restoration and conservation of some of our best-loved buildings involves understanding the longterm changes that occur inside the individual blocks of stone used in their construction.

Until recently, the absence of the technology needed to do this limited knowledge of those processes. Now, thanks to EPSRC funding, Jennifer McKinley is delving deeper, using equipment and techniques normally associated with oil and gas exploration.

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