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Health & Medicine

Estonia To Offer Free Genetic Testing, And Other Nations May Follow

100,000 Estonians are participating in the first run of the new system.

Prosthetics and Devices

A Journal Retracted A Controversial Paper About CRISPR. The Damage Might Already Be Done.

If people were convinced CRISPR is dangerous, that article was (inaccurate, now-retracted) "proof."

SpaceX

With the Most Reused Parts Ever, SpaceX’s Mission Successfully Sent Its Cargo to the ISS

It's the first time a reused booster and already-used spacecraft have been used in a single mission.

Bitcoin

Exclusive: The Truth Behind the Bitcoin “Cult” Trying to Buy a Church in Brooklyn

Flyers protesting the church were sprinkled around the subway.

Climate Change

Another Thing That Climate Change Takes From Us: Our Beaches

If beaches survive rising seas, we might not be allowed to visit them.

Blockchain

Hold Up: What Actually Happened in Sierra Leone’s “Blockchain” Election?

"There was some miscommunication on our behalf..."

Cancer

Here’s Why A California Court Requires Cancer Risk Warnings on Coffee

Don't pour out that cup of joe just yet.

Future Society

Super-Local Broadband May Be The Best Way to Preserve Net Neutrality

Access to the internet could become a public service.

Food

Mind-Controlled Mice Navigate Mazes, No Longer Crave Food

Living organisms controlled remotely could actually be useful.

Climate Change

Cape Town Is Running Out of Water. Can We Prevent A Global Crisis?

"It wasn't until we lost the climate lottery that we realized how much work we had to do."

Jeff Bezos

Donald Trump Is Still Going in on Jeff Bezos and Amazon, Still Getting Basic Facts Laughably Incorrect

Trump rage, code red.

Falcon

SpaceX Launched Another Falcon9, But Failed to Recover Its Nose Cone

Until next time.

Future Society

If You Jaywalk in China, Facial Recognition Means You’ll Walk Away With A Fine

Facial recognition in the city of Shenzhen is just one part of a growing national surveillance system.

Science & Energy

Pruitt’s EPA Will Give Automakers What They Want: Fewer Emissions Rules

Trump's one step closer to keeping his promise to automakers.

Blockchain

Mailchimp is Shutting Down ICO and Blockchain-related Emails, and People Are Freaking Out

Mailchimp? More like...Mail...clamp...down.

From Quarks to Quasars

Prince Rupert’s Drop (One of the Coolest Things You’ve Never Heard of)

Science & Energy

Chileans Criticize US Scientists Over Treatment of Ata the “Alien” Mummy

Ata was human, and her parents could still be alive.

Future Society

Don’t Just Delete Facebook — Delete Well

"Deactivating" just doesn't cut it.

Future Society

Assassin’s Creed’s New Discovery Mode Is What Museums Will Look Like In The Future

Ubisoft painstakingly reconstructs ancient worlds for its games. Why not bring it to the classroom?

Space

Finding Meteorites In Antarctica is Grueling but Worth It

They teach us a great deal about the origins of the solar system.