This Week’s NOVA Next Feature
Two even more exotic possibilities could explain the curious data physicists have gathered over the years. NOVA Next contributor Kate Becker reports the story.
In other news:
- BOSS supercluster is so big it could rewrite cosmological theory
- Eating meat may have paved the way for today’s 6,500 spoken languages.
- Google’s AlphaGo program trounces the world ‘Go’ champion… twice.
- Spanish shipwrecks unveil centuries of hurricane patterns .
- This crowdfunded Russian satellite could be the world’s first space monument .
- “One of the most beautiful things about science is that it unifies all of us.” Don’t miss physicist Janna Levin’s inspiring message .
What We’re Reading
- “It’s not a human move. I’ve never seen a human play this move,” says three-time European Go champion Fan Hui . “So beautiful.” [Wired]
- Like humans, Japanese great tits use syntax to compose their songs. [The Washington Post]
- Plastic refrigerator letters are at the center of a debate over what synesthesia is and how it begins. [National Geographic]
- Experts have combined tens of thousands of evolutionary trees into a single Circle of Life for the first time. [Scientific American]
- Oklahoma is putting a limit on oil and gas wells in order to fight earthquakes. [The New York Times]
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