This Week’s NOVA Next Feature
New programs for at-risk infants promise to change autism’s trajectory, but they are fraught with challenges. NOVA Next contributor Sujata Gupta reports the story.
In other news from NOVA and around the web:
- Hamsters store food in pouches that extend all the way back to their hips.
- Welcome to Oymyakon, Russia : the coldest town on Earth.
- “There is no strict dividing line between psychosis and normal experience,” writes Tanya Luhrmann for The New York Times . What does that mean for schizophrenia research ?
- An unusual blast of radio waves may have come from outside our galaxy.
- The same material that makes baby diapers absorbent just made microscopic cells easier to see.
- X-ray vision unveils hidden text in Vesuvius-blasted papyrus .
- During his State of the Union address, Barack Obama urged Congress to pass legislation needed to better meet the evolving threat of cyber-attacks and identity theft .
- A silicone spinal implant has restored paralyzed rats’ ability to move. “Smell cell” injections could also become popular in the race to cure paralysis.
- The first “genetically recoded organisms” (or GROs) can only survive in the presence of designer compounds not found in nature.
- We may be able to welcome two new planets into our solar system this summer.
Did you miss "Sunken Ship Rescue" this week? You can watch it streaming online here.
- The speed of light is a constant? Not necessarily .
- A measles outbreak that began at Disneyland is spreading across California and beyond. Here’s how the U.S. and the U.K. are dealing with this vaccine-preventable disease .
- A notebook of Alan Turing’s has been valued at more than $1.5 million .
- Massive oil spill in Yellowstone River contaminates drinking water.
- Can the Internet be archived ?