AUTUMN CAPTURES

Autumn spring.

artists; signatures and monograms, an international directory. Castagno, John. Scarecrow Pr., ©2007 567 p. $225.00 Castagno, a multimedia artist and sculptor and author of other books in the Artists’ Signatures and Monograms series, presents a reference for identifying, authenticating, and verifying signatures and works of wellknown and little-known abstract artists. About 2,300 painters, print...

, Autumn 2013

Spherical System Captures

R esearchers have built a spherical optical system that can record images from all directions around its location, giving viewers a 360-degree view of the surrounding area. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Research Laboratory of Electronics, along with MIT’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Department of Electrical Engineering, developed the new technology, known a...

Nanomedicine captures cardiovascular disease.

Nanomedicine, the research field that makes use of nanoparticulate agents for biomedical applications, is well established in oncology.1 In fact, the application of nanotechnology in medicine started with, and is most prominently present in, targeted therapeutics for cancer. The initial goals included altering pharmacokinetics, increasing the percentage of injected dose to reach the tumor, acco...

Motion onset captures attention.

Although visual motion may seem salient, motion per se does not automatically attract attention. We show here, however, that the onset of motion does indeed attract attention. In three experiments, subjects identified target letters in displays that contained targets and distractors. There was no advantage for moving letters among static ones, but there was an advantage for objects that had rec...