This Week’s NOVA Next Feature
Production and distribution of methane is full of leaks, and no one—not even the EPA—knows how much is lost. NOVA Next contributing editor Phil McKenna reports the story.
In other news from NOVA and around the web:
- Physicists solved a mystery of black holes while working on the movie Interstellar.
- These new power plants could actually remove carbon from the atmosphere.
- Medical professionals may soon be able to test for diseases using a smartphone.
- Emissions levels during precolonial times were high enough to consider the Incas polluters.
- Some physicists are rethinking falsifiability , the idea that theories must be testable.
- Raindrops are like tiny asteroid strikes .
- Should Boston dump some of its excessive snow into the Boston Harbor?
- Adults with autism have to navigate an increasingly complex world.
- Emissions levels during precolonial times were high enough to consider the Incas polluters.
Did you miss "Colosseum: Roman Death Trap" this week? You can watch it streaming online here.
- A slime mold will play a duet with a scientist in a rare musical pairing . Learn more about slime molds with this NOVA video short .
- Washington lawmakers want computer science to count as a foreign language.
- Brian Williams may not have consciously erred, but merely made a very human mistake .
- A college student is eating bugs with every meal for 30 days. Here are five reasons why you should eat them, too.
- You may need to start planning your digital afterlife , says one expert.