Party Drug, Powerful Molecule, and Repowered LHC: NOVA Next Week in Review
This Week’s NOVA Next Feature
Last June, journalist James Bamford, who is working with NOVA on a new film about cyber warfare that will air in 2015, sat down with Snowden in a Moscow hotel room for a lengthy interview. On Thursday, we published an unedited transcript of their conversation.
In other news from NOVA and around the web:
- How the physics of champagne will improve power plants.
- A century from now, it’s possible that only about 600 languages will be left on the planet—as opposed to today’s 6,000.
- In Bangladesh, some fruit bats live in ancient ruins—and carry signs of Ebola .
- Mark Zuckerberg’s New Year’s resolution is to read more books. Guess what? It’s ours, too. Reclaim your love of reading with #NOVAreads .
- What heroin addiction tells about breaking bad habits.
- Depression may not be a disorder of the mind, but o f the immune system .
- A group of medical students is using Seinfeld episodes to learn about psychiatric disorders.
- Holding a grudge may literally weigh you down .
- The vinegar worm is a simple creature. But its sex life is endlessly complicated , writes Carl Zimmer.
- What you do in your final few hours may leave indelible chemical traces in your brain.
- Astronomers have identified three more exoplanets orbiting their stars in the habitable zone.
- At MIT, nearly 20 students are enrolled in a class titled “ Becoming the Next Bill Nye .”
- The rave drug known as “Special K” could be the next big antidepressant .
Did you miss "Rise of the Drones" this week? You can watch it streaming online here.
- Something to think about while we’re in the depths of winter: 2014 was the hottest year on record.
- When the LHC powers up again in March, its main job will be to track down “Susy,” or supersymmetry .
- Cyber attack on German steel mill leads to “massive” real-world damage.
- Alison Hill, a research fellow at Harvard University and NOVA Next contributor, has been named one of Forbes’ “ 30 Under 30 .” Read her feature on why we’re still without an HIV cure .
- Drug-resistant bacteria may have met their match in a newly-discovered antibiotic .
- New fabric turns your body into a furnace .
Photo Credit: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
