This Week’s NOVA Next Feature
Why acidic water hasn’t killed Palau’s vibrant coral could help save many reefs from catastrophe. NOVA Next contributor Joshua Sokol reports the story.
In other news from NOVA and around the web:
- The promise and perils of hyperloop and other high-speed trains.
- The force of your grip may be a better predictor of future health than blood pressure.
- Scientists created a dino-skulled chicken to explore evolution .
- Many students feel as though they don’t belong in math class. That needs to change .
- Volcanic vents give us a glimpse of what a future acid ocean might look like.
- Coral reefs face a bleak future, but survival may come from an unlikely place .
- Fisheries biologists discovered the world’s only known, truly warm-blooded fish , the opah.
- WBUR’s Here and Now interviewed marine biologist Laeititia Plaisance (an expert from “Lethal Seas”) in this story about ocean acidification.
- Cocaine is being mixed with something that can make your skin rot .
- Jennifer Doudna helped devise a simple way to alter any organism’s DNA . Here’s what the technology she invented could do.
- The biggest misconceptions about evolution, part two .
Did you miss "Lethal Seas" this week? Watch it streaming online.
- Is math invented or real? #NOVAreads will ask the question next Thursday, May 21 at 1 pm. Go to reddit.com/r/science for an AMA (“ask me anything”) with Mario Livio, astrophysicist and author of “Is God a Mathematician?”
- Cuba’s inventive vaccine could treat more than just lung cancer .
- By receiving a measles vaccine, you’re actually warding off future (preventable) infections , too.
- Elephants are under siege throughout Africa.
- The Himalayas dropped several feet as a result of the first of the two recent Nepali earthquakes.
- From paper to smartphones, these medical diagnostics are changing healthcare.
- Scientists are coming to more of a consensus on the health benefits of coffee .
- Across the globe, male suicides happen more often than female suicides.
- Listen to music for a string quartet made from climate change data .