Best Jobs In Science: NASA Concept Illustrators Turn Raw Data Into Art
We talked to the Spitzer Space Telescope‘s visualization team about the challenges and rewards of rendering the mission’s reams of non-visual data into something that catches the public eye. In a shared office on the southern edge of Caltech’s campus, Robert Hurt and Tim Pyle are making art out of science. Armed with the industry…
Citizen Scientists Discover Pulsars in Deep Space
While your computer is running idle, it could be finding new pulsars and black holes in deep space—just like the computers of three volunteers running a program called Einstein@Home. Three volunteers running the distributed computing program Einstein@Home have discovered a new pulsar in the data from the Arecibo Observatory radio telescope. Their computers, one in…
Injectable Glowing Beads In Bloodstream Can Indicate Glucose Levels
Diabetics may have yet another tool in their blood-sugar management arsenal — an implantable, fluorescent blood-sugar monitor. It involves small hydrogel beads that vary the intensity of emitted light depending on glucose concentration. They’re called Life Beans. The system, developed at the University of Tokyo, could lead to implantable blood-glucose monitors, which could enable 24-7…