This Week’s NOVA Next Feature
Science is revealing the neurological and sociological stimuli behind extremism—and how people can escape its grasp. NOVA Next contributor Christina Couch
In other news:
- What the heck is a pentaquark ?
- The strict chicken politics of cock-a-doodle-do
- Agriculture may have started 11,000 years earlier than we thought.
- An Ebola vaccine was so effective in clinical trials, they’ve announced the results early .
- How can we solve the mysteries of human memory ? One Nobel laureate turned to the lowly sea slug.
- Astronomers have discovered the universe’s brightest known aurora , and it’s just 18 light years away.
- How quickly is Greenland’s ice sheet melting? Ari Daniel, science reporter for NOVA and PRI’s The World , has been living on a glacier to find out. Listen to him on the radio , ask him anything , and follow him on Instagram and Twitter for updates.
What We’re Reading
- CRISPR has “promised direct access to the source code of life .” [Wired]
- A radical epilepsy treatment from the early 20th century was one of the first demonstrations that the divided self has a real, physical basis. [The Atlantic]
- Scientists have identified the four English settlers buried in colonial Jamestown’s first church. [Smithsonian]
- Part of an airplane wing —possibly a remnant of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370—has been found on the shores of the French island Reunion. [The Telegraph]
- Guitarist Brian May of Queen finished his Ph.D. astrophysics thesis in 2007. He’s now helping NASA’s New Horizons team interpret Pluto data. [Smithsonian]
- A snow leopard, a golden lion tamarin, and manta rays will be among the animals projected onto the side of the Empire State Building . [The New York Times]
- America’s coastal cities face a “triple threat,” increasing risk of serious flooding . [The Guardian]
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