Required Reading
This week, a rare Frida Kahlo self-portrait is going to auction, the Lanier family continues fighting to have photos of their enslaved ancestors returned from Harvard, a restoration of a late work by Michelangelo, and more.
An Unsentimental Sculptor Confronts Mortality
Daisy Youngblood is a portrait sculptor whose themes include the embracing of one’s mortality.
Photos of “Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped,” Before the Silvery Fabric Comes Down
The project required 269,000 square feet of silvery-blue polypropylene fabric, 32,300 square feet of red rope, and the combined efforts of 1,200 workers.
Your Concise New York Art Guide for October 2021
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very New York art events this month.
Your Concise Los Angeles Art Guide for October 2021
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very Los Angeles art events this month.
We Believe Zoom Is the Fabric Connecting Global Enterprise Communications and the Future of Work
In our view, Zoom is well-positioned to define the future of communications. The way in which companies compete is changing now that video…
Most cases of never-smokers’ lung cancer treatable with mutation-targeting drugs
Despite smoking’s well-known role in causing lung cancer, a significant number of patients who develop lung tumors have never smoked. While scientists are still working to understand what spurs cancer in so-called ‘never-smokers,’ a study suggests that…
COVID-19 hospitalizations increase among unvaccinated pregnant women
Unvaccinated pregnant women are increasingly being hospitalized with COVID-19 during a nationwide surge of the Delta variant, according to researchers.
New treatment for inflammatory bowel disease: Opioids may cure that ‘bad gut feeling’
Opioid receptors play key roles in regulating our senses and emotions. Recently, their discovery outside the nervous system raised several questions about the effects of opioids on the immune system. Now, researchers have shown that KNT-127 — a drug t…
Scientists use nuclear physics to probe Floridan Aquifer threatened by climate change
Scientists used a nuclear dating technique to study the dynamics of the Floridan Aquifer. The findings show the promise of this emerging technique to help understand geological processes and to forecast the effects of climate change on coastal aquifers.
Study on African buffalo offers insights on persistence of highly contagious pathogens
A new study on foot-and-mouth disease among buffalo in South Africa could help explain how certain extremely contagious pathogens are able to persist and reach endemic stage in a population, long after they’ve burned through their initial pool of susce…
New metamaterial with unusual reflective property could boost your Wi-Fi signal
Engineers have achieved a practical mechanism for ‘full-duplex nonreciprocity,’ a property in metamaterials that allows for manipulation of both incoming and reflective beams of light.
Dynamic pregnancy intentions
A study found that pregnancy intentions often change over as short as a 12-month time period, and that they specifically vary with partner status, household income, and employment status.
Looking beyond DNA to see cancer with new clarity
Researchers have mapped out how hundreds of mutations involved in two types of cancer affect the activity of proteins that are the ultimate actors behind the disease. The work points the way to identifying new precision treatments that may avoid the si…