The Beauty of the Ephemeral World
Whereas the creators of landscape abstractions generally believed their paintings were impervious to time, Lucy Mullican makes artworks that are exposed and susceptible.
For An Icelandic Conceptual Art Pioneer, Home Was His Inspiration
Birgir Andrésson was steeped in Iceland’s ways and lore, landscape and history. It was also his complex subject and an energizing force.
A Cryptic Dance Between Understanding and Incomprehension
Rather than dismissing illegibility as a lack of clarity, Steffani Jemison embraces opacity as a strategy that provides other ways of practicing freedom and connection.
Maggi Hambling’s Visceral Abstractions Reflect Environmental Destruction
Hambling’s paintings nudge viewers to consider what we will be losing if humankind continues on its current path, and how much we’ve already lost.
Abstract Art in the Southwest Is as Vast as the Region’s Terrain
The exhibition is a compelling, if at times dissonant, examination of the formal and material possibilities at the heart of abstraction.
Risky driving behaviors increase as common sleep disorder worsens
Up to half of older adults may have sleep apnea, a condition in which breathing and sleep are briefly interrupted many times a night. A new study shows that this chronic tiredness can have serious implications for road safety.
For neurons, where they begin isn’t necessarily where they end
Scientists describe novel methods for inferring the movement of human brain cells during fetal development by studying healthy adult individuals who have recently passed away from natural causes.
Widespread brain receptor hides surprising mechanism of action
One of the most important molecules in the brain doesn’t work quite the way scientists thought it did, according to new work.
African dust crosses the Atlantic
A beautiful sunset over the Atlantic off the Florida coast, or an orangey glow in the Texas sky at dusk may be caused by dust from West Africa, according to researchers who are looking at the paths of particulate matter in the skies over the Sahara des…
Making a game of it: Contests help new moms increase their steps
Fun and games could be a solution to serious problems like preeclampsia and hypertension among pregnant people and holds promise for significant progress, according to a new study. Researchers found that gamification—broadly defined as the use of speci…
Anthem (ANTM) Q1 2022 Earnings Call Transcript
ANTM earnings call for the period ending March 31, 2022.
Why Coinbase Stock Rose, Then Fell Today
Coinbase’s launch of an NFT marketplace was overshadowed by reports that NFT sales are in retreat.
New global forecasts of marine heatwaves foretell ecological and economic impacts
Researchers have developed global forecasts that can provide up to a year’s notice of marine heatwaves, sudden and pronounced increases in ocean temperatures that can dramatically affect ocean ecosystems.
Clearing up biases in artificial intelligence
Scientists have noticed grave disparities in artificial intelligence, noting that the methods are not objective, especially when it comes to geodiversity. AI tools, whether forecasting hail, wind or tornadoes, are assumed to be inherently objective, sa…