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Editing of Human Genes May Begin by Year’s End in the U.S.
The first-ever trial of CRISPR in the U.S. will test if it’s safe to edit T cells in cancer patients
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UN Report Shows Refugee Numbers Have Hit a Historic High
More than 65 million people are now displaced from their homes due to extended wars and a lack of new solutions
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New Evidence Strengthens the Case for Pluto’s Underground Ocean
Features on the dwarf planet’s smooth surface suggest that not all is frozen on that tiny, distant world
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Land Around the Infamous San Andreas Fault Is on the Move
Scientists mapped how California rises and falls around its most famous fault
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PG&E Announces Closure of California’s Last Nuclear Power Plant
One of the most famous, but aging, nuclear power plants in the U.S. will soon see its end
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The Event that Wiped out Dinosaurs Also Nearly Did in the Mammals
New estimates suggest a measly seven percent of mammals survived the extinction
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Trader Joe’s Agrees to Fix Its Fridges for the Environment
The retailer just agreed to a pricey settlement with the Environmental Protection Agency
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Every Sperm Whale Alive Today May Have Descended From the Same Female
An 80,000-year-old “Eve” was the mother of all modern sperm whales—literally
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What Brexit Would Mean for U.K.’s Arts, Sciences and Other Sectors
Exiting the European Union could have far ranging consequences for industries throughout the United Kingdom
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What Happens in the Brain When Music Causes Chills?
The brains of people who get chills when the right song comes on are wired differently than others
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This Library Has Books Checked Out by Hamilton and Burr
The New York Society Library was wide enough for both men
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The Contentious History of the Cherry Tomato
The salad topper has a long and fraught history
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Meet Three of Earth’s Tiny Celestial Buddies
A handful of quasi-satellites, mini-moons and Trojan asteroids tag along with Earth as it whizzes around the sun
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As U.S.-Cuba Relations Warm, This Long-Dead Author Benefits
A new conservation facility is on its way to Hemingway’s home near Havana
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Former SS Guard Convicted on 170,000 Counts of Accessory to Murder
Reinhold Hanning a 94-year-old retired dairy farmer served as a guard at Auschwitz during World War II
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LGBT People Are the Targets of More Hate Crimes Than Any Other Minority
Hate crimes against LGBT people are far from rare
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Watch a Horde of Giant Crabs Amass Off of the Australian Coast
Hundreds. Of thousands. Of crabs.
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Mongolia Adopts Address System That Uses Three-Word Names
What3words’ geo-coding system divides the Earth’s surface into 57 trillion squares, and assigns each a unique, memorable string of names
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India Gives Go-Ahead for Farmers to Cull “Vermin”
The cull will include a range of animals deemed troublesome to people—including rhesus monkeys and wild boar in some places
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