This Week’s NOVA Next Feature
New dams and reservoirs are unmistakably altering the American West’s iconic landscapes. NOVA Next contributor Hillary Rosner
In other news:
- Global temperatures are set to cross the 1˚ C warming threshold this year for the first time.
- Turns out coughs, sneezes, and vomit travel way farther than we thought.
- The dispersant Corexit may have made the effects of the Deepwater Horizon spill much worse.
- Schrödinger’s feline thought experiment had little impact during his lifetime. So how did it become so widely-used?
- Antarctica may melt more slowly because of gravity.
- Two broken satellites will make the most precise test of general relativity yet.
What We’re Reading
- “ Each bit of dust is a microhistory of your life.” [The New Yorker]
- Neuroscientist Edward Boyden has won a Breakthrough Prize. [The New York Times] He and other scientists are developing a brand new way to see the brain.
- Scientists have discovered a “striking protective relationship” between leg power and preserved mental ability . [The Guardian]
- The dream of a mission to Mars has been alive and well for the last 70 years. [National Geographic]
- Our ancestral microbiome probably looked very different from the modern microbiome. [Nautilus]
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