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Attacking MRSA with metals from antibacterial clays

PhysOrg Team — Fri, 17 May 2013 22:04:38 +0000

In the race to protect society from infectious microbes, the bugs are outrunning us. The need for new therapeutic agents is acute, given the emergence of novel pathogens as well as old foes bearing heightened antibiotic resistance.
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A New Art Basel for Asia

Artworld News — Fri, 17 May 2013 22:00:49 +0000

The Wall Street Journal: Art Basel in Hong Kong, the latest in what has become an international circuit, kicks off on Thursday. The fair comes at a busy time for art lovers, just two weeks after Frieze New York and a week before the Venice Biennale. Art Basel, in Switzerland, takes place later in June.

NASA’s STEREO detects a CME from the sun

PhysOrg Team — Fri, 17 May 2013 21:52:27 +0000

On 5:24 a.m. EDT on May 17, 2013, the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection or CME, a solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of solar particles into space that can reach Earth one to three days later and affect electronic sy...
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MOCA architecture show pushed back to June 16

Artworld News — Fri, 17 May 2013 21:33:19 +0000

Los Angeles Times: The Museum of Contemporary Art released a statement Friday saying it has moved back the opening date of its show about contemporary Los Angeles architecture, part of the Getty's "Pacific Standard Time Presents" initiative, by two weeks, to June 16.

Rock slams into moon, sparks giant explosion

NBCNews: Technology — Fri, 17 May 2013 21:26:35 +0000

By Clara MoskowitzSpace.comThe moon has a new hole on its surface thanks to a boulder that slammed into it in March, creating the biggest explosion scientists have seen on the moon since they started monitoring it.The meteorite crashed on March 17, sla...
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Virgin birth or hanky-panky? Anteater mom sparks a scientific debate

NBCNews: Technology — Fri, 17 May 2013 21:04:16 +0000

Is it a case of anteater virgin birth, a hormonal quirk or just some desperate hanky-panky? Whatever it is, Armani the anteater's surprising pregnancy has sparked a debate over what animals are capable of when it comes to sex.The story unfolded at the ...
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In ancient Egypt, summer was the season for making babies

NBCNews: Technology — Fri, 17 May 2013 21:04:16 +0000

By Owen JarusLiveScienceThe peak period for baby-making sex in ancient Egypt was in July and August, when the weather was at its hottest.Researchers made this discovery at a cemetery in the Dakhleh Oasis in Egypt whose burials date back around 1,800 ye...
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Student’s self-driving car tech wins Intel science fair

NBCNews: Technology — Fri, 17 May 2013 20:53:25 +0000

When self-driving cars reach the masses, thanks may be due to a 19-year-old high-school student from Romania who developed an artificial intelligence that slashes the cost of the technology. He took top prize — a $75,000 scholarship — Friday at an international science and engineering fair.Self-driving cars are nothing new. Tech giant Google, for example, has been working on one since 2010. But G...

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Fallout from huge solar flare to sideswipe Earth

NBCNews: Technology — Fri, 17 May 2013 20:47:54 +0000

By Mike WallSpace.comA huge explosion on the sun will deal Earth a glancing blow Friday but should not pose a threat to the planet, scientists say.The sun storm erupted late Tuesday during a powerful solar flare — the fourth unleashed by a single sunspot in just 48 hours — and hurled a massive cloud of charged particles out into space at millions of miles an hour.Such eruptions — known as coronal ...

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T-Mobile drops anti-net neutrality lawsuit filed by MetroPCS, leaving Verizon on its own

Adi Robertson — Fri, 17 May 2013 20:29:33 +0000

Cellphone carriers have generally met net neutrality proposals with varying levels of hostility, but Verizon and MetroPCS have been particularly belligerent: in 2011, they sued to overturn the FCC's then-newly adopted Open Internet rules. Since then, the two have consistently argued in court against the rules, which they've said undermine the freedom to run their networks as they see fit. But as T-Mobile finalizes its merger with MetroPCS, it's decided it doesn't want an old lawsuit to come with its new spectrum. In a court statement filed today, T-Mobile has moved to dismiss its appeals claim. T-Mobile's decision to back out doesn't mean the suit is over. Verizon will continue its litigation, though the court document indicates that it... Continue reading…

Phillips Contemporay Sale

Artworld News — Fri, 17 May 2013 20:23:40 +0000

Art Observed: The sale at Phillips began with a Wade Guyton’s U Sculpture (v. 5), (2007) selling for $15,000 over its high estimate at $365,000. Christopher Wool’s slightly obscene And if, (1992) hammered well within its estimate at $4,085,000, but a second work, Untitled from 1999 went well above its projected price, landing at $1,685,000.

Should FBI manhunts use drones? US lawmakers debate

NBCNews: Technology — Fri, 17 May 2013 20:14:44 +0000

At Friday's house hearing on privacy and domestic drones, government representatives and civil rights advocates tried to wrap their brains around a drone-filled future.Once drones are a common sight as scheduled in 2015, activists have suggested that p...
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The smartphone effect: Olympus cuts low-end cameras from lineup

NBCNews: Technology — Fri, 17 May 2013 20:14:44 +0000

It's taken awhile, but cheap point-and-shoots are beginning to actually disappear from the market because of the increasingly ubiquitous smartphone. Camera manufacturer Olympus has decided to cease production of its budget V series of cameras — will Canon, Sony, and others follow their lead?The Wall Street Journal reports that Olympus, blaming lower-than-expected demand, will no longer make their ...

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Contemporary Art Frenzy

Artworld News — Fri, 17 May 2013 20:13:55 +0000

The New York Times: In just under two hours of gavel-wielding, Jussi Pylkkanen, the president of Christie’s Europe, sold 66 works of the 70 offered for $495 million.

I might have been on LSD, but I definitely didn’t paint THAT

Artworld News — Fri, 17 May 2013 20:07:12 +0000

The Independent: By his own admission, Peter Doig led an unusual lifestyle when as a teenager he left home to wander the Canadian prairies. The Scottish-born artist and one of Europe’s most sought-after living painters worked with a gas drilling crew. He also occasionally took LSD.

Top Shelf 011: on the ground at Google I/O

Ross Miller — Fri, 17 May 2013 20:05:51 +0000

The Verge is in San Francisco for the 2013 Google I/O conference. We take the time to reflect on the three hour developer keynote, check out some of Google's not-so-official projects, and catch up with Bradley Horowitz to talk about G...
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Exhibition at Pompidou Metz considers elevated perspective

Artworld News — Fri, 17 May 2013 19:56:34 +0000

Art Daily: Views from above considers how an elevated perspective, from the first aerial photographs of the nineteenth century to the satellite images of Google Earth, has transformed artists' perception of the world.

Gladiatorial Combat: The Battle of the Big

Artworld News — Fri, 17 May 2013 19:54:12 +0000

The New York Times: The Chelsea gallery scene regularly stages clashes of titans, but an especially elaborate cage match is under way right now.
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NASA sees Cyclone Mahasen hit Bangladesh

PhysOrg Team — Fri, 17 May 2013 19:50:04 +0000

NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite known as TRMM measured Cyclone Mahasen's rainfall rates from space as it made landfall on May 16. Mahasen has since dissipated over eastern India.
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At the Studio Museum, Identity Gets a New Face

Artworld News — Fri, 17 May 2013 19:48:06 +0000

Art Fag City: Who was Sally Hemings? You could choose a number of titles: the mother of Thomas Jefferson’s children; his wife Martha Jefferson’s sister; Martha and Thomas’s slave. Her story is now nearly two centuries old, yet still demanded an answer in 1998, when a DNA test finally confirmed her link to the Jefferson bloodline.

Satellite sees Tropical Storm Alvin’s life end quickly

PhysOrg Team — Fri, 17 May 2013 19:38:30 +0000

The first tropical storm of the Eastern Pacific hurricane season was short-lived. Satellite imagery revealed that Tropical Storm Alvin became a remnant low pressure area 36 hours after it was named.
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Smuggled dinosaur’s return may boost Mongolian paleontology

NBCNews: Technology — Fri, 17 May 2013 19:30:34 +0000

By Wynne ParryLiveScience When Mongolia’s most famous dinosaur, a relative of T. rex, returns to the Asian country on Saturday, it returns to a homeland rich in dinosaur fossils, but with scant resources to display and study them.But there are signs this dinosaur's celebrity status — the Tarbosaurus skeleton made headlines as the subject of a custody battle and federal smuggling case here in the U...

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Absence and Memory on the Lower East Side

Artworld News — Fri, 17 May 2013 19:27:24 +0000

Hyperallergic: The shadows of memory and haunting of the afterlife are entwined through three shows currently open on Orchard Street on the Lower East Side. While perhaps odd choices for the warming weather that generally restores life to the streets, these exhibitions dwell more on death, offering some intelligent contemplations of how art can function as a form of remembrance.

Don’t want to be tracked? Turn cellphone off, says magistrate

NBCNews: Technology — Fri, 17 May 2013 19:19:12 +0000

Don't want your location to be tracked on your cellphone by police? Just turn the GPS off, otherwise you've got no expectation of privacy, a federal magistrate said recently in a ruling. The ACLU calls the decision an "opinion straight from the Twiligh...
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Yahoo’s Tumblr buyout rumors swirl

Chris Welch — Fri, 17 May 2013 19:14:53 +0000

CNBC is reporting that Yahoo will hold a "product-related" news event this Monday in New York City. None other than CEO Marissa Mayer will be speaking at the event. Exactly what Yahoo plans to announce hasn't yet been disclosed, but news of the event comes in the midst of rumors pointing to an acquisition of Tumblr. The extraordinarily popular microblogging site is based out of Manhattan, so the location would make sense if a deal has indeed been finalized. Reports indicate that Yahoo could spend up to $1 billion for Tumblr, which would represent Mayer's biggest spend yet after high profile acquisitions of Summly and Astrid. The company has also recently signed exclusive content partnerships that will bring it video programming from... Continue reading…

‘Free speech doesn’t mean free stuff’: Congress begins copyright reform with a plea for civility

Adi Robertson — Fri, 17 May 2013 19:07:19 +0000

For the first time in over a decade, Congress is looking at a major copyright overhaul. But before it happens, the House Judiciary Committee is looking backwards, at both a 3-year-old copyright report and what it sees as an earlier, q...
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Verge Favorites: Katie Drummond

Katie Drummond — Fri, 17 May 2013 18:42:03 +0000

The Verge staffers aren't just people who love technology. They're people who love stuff. We spend as much time talking and thinking about our favorite books, music, and movies as we do debating the best smartphone to buy or what point-and-shoot has the tightest macro. We thought it would make sense to share our latest obsessions with Verge readers, and we hope you're encouraged to share your favorites with us. Thus a long, healthy debate will ensue where we all end up with new things to read, listen to, or try on. Continue reading…

Nintendo will show off unreleased Wii U games at Best Buy stores during E3

Nathan Ingraham — Fri, 17 May 2013 18:13:07 +0000

Nintendo held its monthly Nintendo Direct online event today, and amidst the standard news about upcoming releases was an interesting detail about the company's plans for E3. According to North American President Reggie Fils-Aime, a p...
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Astronaut won’t let gravity’s ill effects bring him down

NBCNews: Technology — Fri, 17 May 2013 18:12:34 +0000

By Irene KlotzReutersCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Back on Earth, Canadian astronaut and cyberspace tweeter Chris Hadfield is getting a rough re-introduction to gravity after a five-month stint aboard the International Space Station, the former commander told...
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MTA tests inflatable ‘plug’ it hopes can shield NYC subway from weather disasters

Chris Welch — Fri, 17 May 2013 17:52:47 +0000

After the unprecedented damage to New York City's transit system brought on by Hurricane Sandy, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has been looking into near-term solutions that could shield subway tunnels from flood waters come next storm season. It tested one of those safeguards yesterday for the first time by inflating a 30-foot plug (designed by the US Department of Homeland Security) that could effectively seal off New York's subways in the event of a natural disaster. The test run took place at the South Ferry station in Manhattan — one of eight stations consumed by flooding in Sandy's aftermath. Incoming MTA chairman Tom Prendergast told the Associated Press that there are 540 spots in lower Manhattan alone that... Continue reading…