Education, Heavy Hydrogen, and High Tides: Week in Review

This Week’s NOVA Next Feature

Companies are pushing schools to use their neuroscience-inspired programs, but scientists say there’s scant evidence that backs their claims. NOVA Next contributor Carrie Arnold reports the story.

Heavy, armored hydrogen could be the next best ingredient for drugmakers.
Household dust is laced with hazardous chemicals .
From a scientific perspective, is inbreeding really that bad ? NEW Gross Science
High tides appear to cause massive earthquakes .
The oldest book written in the Americas is a Mayan guide to astronomy .

Neuroeducation programs have popped up in thousands of school districts around the U.S., but scientists are skeptical of their claims.

What We’re Reading

After a long struggle, Sri Lanka was declared free of malaria last week. [The New York Times]
The United Nations is expected to release its first resolution on combatting antibiotic resistance . [National Geographic]
The sugar industry didn’t want you to know that sugar is bad for heart health. So it prevented you from finding out . [The New York Times]
“Anyone with some genetics knowledge and a few hundred dollars can do it.” On CRISPR [Quanta Magazine]

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