This Week’s NOVA Next Feature
Dark matter may morph into dark energy, potentially altering our understanding of how the universe is bound together. NOVA Next contributor Charles Q. Choi reports the story.
In other news:
- An outbreak of the rare Elizabethkingia disease is killing people in Wisconsin.
- Is gravity secretly changing the color of light all around you?
- Chemists inspired by plants make plastic out of carbon dioxide.
- T. rex spent millions of years getting smart before it became king.
- The combined strength of six ant-inspired microrobots can move a two-ton car.
What We’re Reading
- The New Horizons team is beginning to release its findings. Here’s what we know so far . [The New York Times]
- For more than three millennia, no human has known what lies behind the west and north walls of King Tut’s tomb. [National Geographic]
- The NFL has formally acknowledged a link between football and CTE for the first time. [NPR]
- Scientists are using adult skin cells to regenerate functional human heart tissue. [Popular Science]
- The British number theorist who solved Fermat’s last theorem has won the 2016 Abel Prize. [Nature]
- A newly-discovered plastic-eating species of bacteria could help us degrade waste. [New Scientist]