This Week’s NOVA Next Feature
The balance sheet might be the next frontier for conservation, but will it be enough to save the ecosystems that underpin our livelihoods? NOVA Next contributor and 2015 AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellow Anna Lieb reports the story.
In other news from NOVA and around the web:
- By simplifying the view, a startup’s new goggles could radically alter how legally blind people see the world .
- Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is calling for universal pre-kindergarten . Not going to preschool, it turns out, could affect adult health .
- A small group of researchers believes that dark matter is actually a failure of general relativity .
- Read the full transcript of Pope Francis’s encyclical on climate change, with commentary. Scientists are saying he portrayed the environmental situation accurately. Track the full story of climate change here .
- What has barbed hooks, lives in flesh, and can be removed with bacon ? The human bot fly, of course!
- CR7 contains some of the oldest stars in the universe , and it’s giving astronomers a view of the universe when it contained just a handful of elements.
- Gross Science host Anna Rothschild’s advice for young women? Shun imposter syndrome , and know that you’re not alone.
- A new study shows that women exposed to DDT in the womb have a quadrupled risk of breast cancer .
- On Tuesday, the FDA set a 2018 deadline for the food industry to get rid of trans fats. We covered this back in 2013 , when the idea was first proposed.
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- This sanctuary could help physicists understand why the universe has more matter than antimatter .
- Albinism is most common—and most feared—in sub-Saharan Africa .
- The most unbelievable eye on Earth belongs to a creature with no brain.
- A material known as “ impact glass ” has been identified on Mars.
- Scientists have captured a white blood cell’s death for the first time.
- Kangaroos are almost exclusively lefties .
- Leonard Finkelman is a dinosaur philosopher . Yes, that’s a thing. He thinks about dinosaurs… a lot.
- On Sunday, the European Space Agency’s Philae comet lander woke up after seven months without contact . It “spoke” to ground control for 85 seconds.
- This couple started the first official rat sanctuary in the United States.