Abstracts: Chernobyl, Arctic Oil Drones, and More
• On the 30th anniversary of the meltdown at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, explore 360-degree pictures of the recovering environment that lives in the ruins (National Geographic) and get lost in stories from the Exclusion Zone. (Orion)
• Grassroots groups advocating for patients with rare diseases are pressuring the FDA to hasten the drug approval process, even when data on a drug is scant. (The Washington Post)
• In a tragic loss, the entire collection of the Delhi natural history museum has been destroyed by a fire. (The Guardian)
• Bio-hacking may sound like a new technology, but women have been hacking their own bodies using implants for years. (Fusion)
• You might think that almost being eaten by a crocodile would make you hate crocodiles– and you would be wrong. Why does tangling with nature so often create environmentalists? (Nautilus)
• We may be able to learn something about how our planet will change through global warming by studying the Earth’s last warm period, 65 million years ago. (Christian Science Monitor)
• As melting ice opens more of the Arctic to oil exploration, unmanned aerial vehicles may offer hope for cleaning up oil spills. (Hakai Magazine)
• Inspired by the discovery that many animals are bio-fluorescent, a biologist at Baruch College is helping humans to see sharks — which still have a bit of a reputation problem — a bit more kindly by looking through their eyes. (The Atlantic)
• And finally, scientists have discovered a fourth state of matter for water, in which it does not behave like a solid, liquid, or gas. (Gizmodo)