Preserving the Past
The George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York, is the oldest photography museum in the world. The Victorian mansion that…
Category: Recent Work
Brave New Jupiter
For the last five years, NASA’s Juno spacecraft has been barrelling towards its final destination: Jupiter, king of the planets.…
Computing’s Search for Quantum Questions
It was billed as the vindication of the quantum computer. Late last year, researchers at Google announced that a quantum…
All about quantum dots
In September 2015, Philips, an electronics company based in The Netherlands, unveiled a computer monitor that achieved a brilliant color…
The Mars Anomaly
Credit: NASA The presence of water isn’t the only Mars mystery scientists are keen to probe. Another centers around a…
The Power of 1
Kent Haffer remembers when his oncologist approached him with an unusual idea. It was 2013, and Haffer, a 55-year-old computer…
Going deep
HOW low can you go? Dedicated deep cavers plumb the depths for an answer, and a newly announced expedition…
Uncharted underground
Matt Covington didn’t sleep much the night before his big swim. Who could blame him? For two days, the wiry…
A Desire to Help
Children can be many things. Joyful, energetic and exasperating. Curious, playful and sad. For P.J. Lukac, who is finishing his…
Looking for the roots of risk
On a bright day in the first week of August, Julianna Deardorff escorted five Chilean scientists from Berkeley to The Farm,…