Black labor has become superfluous in the US economy, and the ruling class is responding with more incarceration and police oppression, says Glen Ford.

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria infect at least 2 million people every year in the United States, killing 23,000. Experts warn that we are reaching a critical point in universal health—one that leaves the public vulnerable to major health risks in a post-antibiotic era.

Since 1992, astronomers have found and confirmed a total of 3,431 exoplanets, star-orbiting planets beyond Earth's solar system. With several high-tech telescopes and observatories on the way in the next year, we have a better-than-ever chance of finding exoplanets with the potential to host extraterrestrial life.

Ecologists published guidelines that identify factors for choosing which species our planet would be best served to revive. One animal that fits these guidelines, the wooly mammoth, could likely be revived using the DNA editing tool CRISPR.