Antibiotics, Entanglement, and Embryos: Week in Review

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 reports the story.

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]