This Week’s NOVA Next Feature
A number of promising new technologies could save us from deadly infections after we lose our best medicines. NOVA Next contributor Jenny Morber
In other news:
- Biologists have doubled the length of time a lab-grown human embryo can survive outside the womb.
- A quantum computer has been hooked up to the cloud for the first time.
- Scientists got an unprecedented look into the Chicluxub crater that killed the dinosaurs.
- Up to 29% of Zika-affected pregnancies result in brain damage to the baby.
What We’re Reading
- How trees calm us down [The New Yorker]
- Mount St. Helens is recharging its magma stores . [Wired]
- Releasing Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes into the wild could help quell the Zika epidemic. [The New York Times]
- Quantum entanglement isn’t the simplest concept. But anyone can grasp it— here’s an easy explanation . [Quanta Magazine]
- The discoverers of gravitational waves have been awarded $3 million. [The New York Times]
- Here’s how one woman searched for purpose in the wake of her Alzheimer’s diagnosis. [The New York Times]
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