This Week’s NOVA Next Feature
Locking carbon away for decades could be as simple as spreading biochar on farm fields. NOVA Next contributor Jori Lewis reports the story.
In other news from NOVA and around the web:
- Nearly half of New Delhi’s 4.4 million schoolchildren have irreversible lung damage from its highly polluted air.
- A jaw found in Ethiopia last week may belong to an entirely new species closely related to humans.
- In the mid-1950s, Alton Yates, then a teenager, volunteered for a job that would help usher in the space age .
- This memory-destroying disease may have evolved alongside human intelligence .
- Right now, there are tiny mites eating, laying eggs, dying, and leaking feces on your face .
- Scientists are studying whales from above… using drones .
- Blood pressure pills and antidepressants are surprisingly effective against Ebola .
- For Caribbean coral polyps, welcoming in this invasive species is like making a deal with the devil.
- Eye movements may actually reveal our internal thought processes .
- It’s sad, but true: koalas can get chlamydia . Unfortunately, treatments for koala STDs might be killing off their gut microbes .
- If you smell like grape juice or maple syrup, you might want to see a doctor. Thanks, TED-Ed , for building a great lesson plan around this Gross Science episode !
- What’s your DNA worth ?
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- The Giant Magellan Telescope may be able to see light emitted by galaxies about 12 to 13.2 billion years ago.
- More than 1,300 people are quarantined in South Korea as the MERS outbreak spreads.
- Conspiracy theories are everywhere on Facebook. Here’s how they start .
- You may think that the desire—and patience—for cooked food is uniquely human. You’d be wrong .
- Suicidal reproduction, or semelparity, is rare in mammals. But these mouse-like marsupials do it .
- Of Pluto’s five moons, Nix may be the most curious .
- Endangered sawfish are cloning themselves to stave off extinction.
- New data shows no global warming “hiatus.”