This Week’s NOVA Next Feature Article
For years, we’ve been hearing about patients “cured” of HIV, only to have the infection return. Why is it so hard to wipe out? NOVA Next contributor Alison Hill reports on the history of attempts to eradicate HIV and the likelihood of a future cure.
In other news from NOVA and around the web:
- A strip of the Atlantic Ocean floor has been belching methane for 1,000 years.
- Teenagers need a lot of sleep. That’s why pediatricians are calling on schools to move start times later .
- Last Saturday, Iceland issued a red alert for the Bardarbunga volcano. Learn about Iceland’s ticking time bombs with “Doomsday Volcanoes” streaming online .
- The Bay Area experienced a 6.0 earthquake early Sunday morning. Here’s a tested, inexpensive way to protect buildings from earthquakes.
- Why don’t we have flying cars by now? Here are some of the obstacles .
- Could a radical new theory kill the multiverse hypothesis? Maybe. In the meantime, here’s a guide to different kinds of parallel universes .
- An Ohio state legislator is attempting to block educators from teaching anything about the scientific process.
- Spraying planes with tiny microsensors could make flying safer, more economical, and more efficient.
- The police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri has focused national attention on wearable cameras for police officers .
- Plastic is “ choking our future in ways that most of us are barely aware,” writes Charles J. Moore for The New York Times.
- For years we’ve speculated on how plastic-ingredient BPA interacts with our bodies. Now, a review of dozens of studies says it’s harming women’s reproductive health .
- Scientists have figured out how to move small objects using magnetic levitation .
- The WHO is calling for regulation of electronic cigarettes .
- Finally we have farming tools designed specifically for women’s bodies .
Did you miss "Why Sharks Attack" this week? Watch it streaming online.
- Carbon-nanotube fuses unleash a surge of electrons called a thermopower wave .
- This bird builds nests so large they pull down trees .
- Meet the people whose lives are most affected by climate change.
- A two-year-old boy likely triggered the entire Ebola outbreak .
- Is our universe a hologram? A project that just started at FermiLab is doing a test to find out.
- The earthquakes that have damaged Napa Valley are exactly what makes its wine so good.
- The Ebola virus isn’t what kills you—it’s your own immune system .