This Week’s NOVA Next Feature
From landfills to the deep sea, superorganisms are redefining life and our search for it on other planets. NOVA Next intern Conor Gearin
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In other news:
- People with schizophrenia may have been born with a different brain structure .
- Just half a degree of warming could catapult Earth into climate extremes.
- 40 million years before the asteroid hit, dinosaurs were already on the decline .
What We’re Reading
- Scientists have discovered a 600-mile coral reef that stretches more than 3,600 square miles across the ocean floor. [The Atlantic]
- Here’s how British scientists got inside North Korea to study a volcano. [Wired]
- “Manipulating nature’s DNA seems a hugely risky and ethically fraught way to help save the natural world. And yet, we may need to accept the risks .” [The New York Times]
- Mindfulness studies are skewed to report positive results . [Nature News]
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