This Week’s NOVA Next Feature
Immersive computer-generated environments are helping psychologists treat everything from PTSD to autism. NOVA Next contributor Christina Couch reports the story.
In other news from NOVA and around the web:
- These nuns in the Central African Republic are fighting malnutrition by growing algae.
- This finding may completely upend what we thought we knew about memory formation .
- Somehow, Copenhagen has convinced half of its residents to commute to work by bicycle every day.
- Future firefighters may extinguish flames using nothing more than sound .
- An old English manuscript could contain answers to our modern-day problem of anti-microbial resistance .
- We’ve been watching this protostar for more than 18 years, and it’s still not even close to fully hatched.
- A public health emergency has been declared in Indiana, after dozens of new HIV cases were confirmed.
- We may have biological proof that children born to poor families are at a cognitive disadvantage .
- What does a healthy ecosystem sound like?
- An Ottoman empire “war camel” skeleton has been discovered in a 17th-century Austrian cellar.
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- Both men and women were photographed in front of this mammoth machine. The men were listed in the captions. The women were not .
- California imposed its first-ever water restrictions .
- Thursday was World Autism Awareness Day. Researchers are attempting to detect autism early , but interventions may come with a cost.
- Schrödinger’s cat isn’t the only animal analogy Schrödinger employed.
- Male dolphins form cognitively complex alliances with one another—and they may last as long as 20 years.