Produced and directed by Corey Eisenstein. Transcript coming soon. (video link) Our previous episode of Edge of Knowledge peeped back in time a few billion years to explore the particular origins of life on Earth , but now we aim our lens in a different direction. Rather than looking at the distant past to see […]
Enlarge / Thought climate change was already complicated? Now scientists have to consider the influence of tiny bits of atmospheric plastic. (credit: Sanka Vidanagama | Getty Images) Like the ash spewed from a supervolcano, microplastics have infested the atmosphere and encircled the globe. These are bits of plastic less than 5 millimeters long, and they […]