Neutrinos, Clones, and Self-Driving Cars: Week in Review

ByAllison EckFriday, July 29, 2016 NOVA NextNOVA Next

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How should a self-driving car behave? It’s not as simple as you might think. NOVA Next contributor and AAAS Mass Media Fellow Kelsey Houston-Edwards

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In other news:

Crystal-powered quantum entanglement satellite will test quantum communications .
A promising Alzheimer’s treatment has
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failed in a new trial . But what if the disease is caused by brain infections ?
Physicists detect neutrinos in superposition hurtling through spacetime .
Human-like speech has been seen in orangutans for the first time.
Cloning doesn’t lead to early aging.

This is the oldest known example of a malignant tumor in a human ancestor. [National Geographic]
Is time even real ? Physicists are vehemently divided on the question. [Quanta Magazine]
Many of the genes in your cells can be traced back to life’s last common ancestor . [New Scientist]
Pretty much everything that survives from Marie Curie’s Parisian home is still radioactive, and will be for at least 1,500 years . [Open Culture]

Illustration credit: Alicia DeWitt