Vikings, Volcanoes, and Very Bad Hangovers: NOVA Next Week in Review

ByAllison EckSaturday, December 13, 2014 NOVA NextNOVA Next

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This Week’s NOVA Next Feature Article

Are century-old, original images of the cosmos worth saving in an era of digitized astronomy? NOVA Next contributor Shraddha Chakradhar

reports on the Plate Stacks Collection of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the questions it brings up.

In other news from NOVA and around the web:

This year is expected to be the deadliest for corn drownings since 2010.
This week we celebrated Computer Science Education Week. Check out NOVA Labs’ Cybersecurity Lab, and see why physicist are pondering the limitations of quantum computers .
Some people would willingly travel to Mars even if it meant dying a few weeks after arriving.
Maternal DNA evidence suggests that Viking women were actively involved in the settlement of new lands.
On Tuesday, President Obama wrote his first line of code .
Scientists have ruled out comets as the primary source of terrestrial water.

Did you miss "3D Spies of WWII" this week? You can watch it streaming online here.

Volcanoes may be masking the severity of global warming.
An estimated 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic , weighing 269,000 tons, is distributed across the ocean.
A bad hangover may be a consequence of your genetic makeup .
A temperature inversion caused the Grand Canyon to become filled to the brim with clouds on Thursday.
Many nursing homes are still prescribing schizophrenia drugs to calm dementia patients.
Why running hurts every part of your body.

Photo Credits: Digital Access to a Sky Century @Harvard, Harvard College Observatory