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Although the carpets in the real Sistine Chapel are beige, Davies installed brilliant red carpeting to make the room “more flamboyant and colorful.”

Less than five millimeters in size, the thread-like fibers come from synthetic clothing materials like fleece, cosmetics, packaging materials and carpeting.

Soon, mounds of unsightly sargassum – carried by currents from the Sargasso Sea and linked to climate change – were carpeting the region’s prized coastlines, repelling holidaymakers with the pungent stench emitted as it rots.

One clue that the Katy Perry picture was bogus is the carpeting on the stairs, which some eagle-eyed social media users pointed out was from the 2018 event.

To learn more, Mainelis and his team constructed an enclosed, air-controlled chamber in a section of his laboratory with both carpeting and vinyl flooring.