In a recent Facebook post, Mark Zuckerberg shared a photo Biohub's science team, and commented on some of the group's goals. According to Zuckerberg, life expectancy has increased by 1/4 year for each year in the past century. If we just continue that progress, average life expectancy will be about 100 by the end of this century.

Temperatures in the Arctic are reaching 20 °C (36 °F) higher than normal above 80 degrees North Latitude. Experts assert that the warmth is a result of a combination of record-low sea-ice and warm/moist air from lower latitudes being driven northward by a jet stream.

Using pluripotent stem cells, scientists have grown intestinal tissues with functional nerve systems. The synthesized tissue was used to study Hirschsprung's disease, a condition that impacts about 200,000 Americans yearly.

Ray McGovern tells Paul Jay that Ret. General Flynn advocates regime change in Iran and keeps saying Iran is building a bomb despite contradictory reports by the intelligence communities.