"What I was doing was taking these bones and seeing whether in fact I could see electron spinresonance spectra getting progressively smaller and ending up with carbon, " said Dr Skinner.
This is because the degree of carbonisation of organic material as measured with electron spinresonance is dependent only upon the amount of carbon and not on the time material has been heated for.
"The so-called war on women has resonance, and the Democrats appear to be winning the spin war, " CNN Chief Political Correspondent Candy Crowley said.
MRI, first developed 30 years ago, is based on a well established scientific technique, nuclear magnetic resonance, which uses the interaction of magnetic fields with the spin of the nuclei of atoms to provide detailed information on the constituents of chemicals and biological materials.