GUANGZHOU, China (PNN) - April 23, 2015 - Rumors have been buzzing for months that a team of Chinese researchers was intending to edit the genes of a human embryo. According to a study published this week in Protein & Cell, the rumors are true. Though the researchers took pains, there’s no doubt that they’ve opened an ethical can of worms that will pit scientists against one another for years to come.

YAKIMA, Washington (PNN) - April 21, 2015 - Factory farms are taking over more and more of this nation’s livestock production. Although some public health issues associated with livestock raised on factory farms are well known, such as antibiotic resistance, there is a new health concern emerging among those living closest to factory farms: the pollution of the air and water supply produced by the hordes of animals.

December 19, 2014 - I confess. I made this sign as “conversation bait” to engage attendees at last week’s National March Against Police Violence. But in my defense, these conversations were research for a new project I’m developing that’s connected to the sign itself.

LIBERLAND (PNN) - April 22, 2015 - Welcome to Liberland, population 250,000… and anyone else looking for a tax haven.

A self-professed Libertarian politician from the Czech Republic says he has created a new, sovereign country on the Croatian-Serbia border where citizens decide their own tax burden, property and individual rights are respected, and the national motto is "Live and Let Live".

SHANGHAI, China (PNN) - April 20, 2015 - Introduced at the Shanghai Auto Show this week, Chevy's FNR concept basically defies all description. The closest thing I can come up with is that it looks like you took a next-generation Volt, mixed it with a BMW i8, and sent the two spiraling 50 years into the future.

LOS ANGELES, Kalifornia (PNN) - April 19, 2015 - Scientists at UCLA's Kalifornia NanoSystems Institute have developed a new device that combines the high energy densities of batteries and the quick charge and discharge rates of supercapacitors. The hybrid supercapacitor is reportedly six times as energy-dense as a commercially available supercapacitor and packs nearly as much energy per unit volume as a lead-acid battery.

CAMBRIDGE, England (PNN) - April 17, 2015 - It is likely the first person who will live to be 1,000 years old is already alive today.

This is according to a growing regiment of researchers who believe a biological revolution enabling humans to experience everlasting youthfulness is just around the corner.

SHANGHAI, China (PNN) - April 15, 2015 - If you want to drive with something more personal than a heads-up display, Mini is hoping to bring technology to your car in the form of a pair of connected eyewear. Called Mini Augmented Vision, the smart glasses work a bit like Google Glass or ODG’s smartglasses, projecting information in front of you relevant to your drive. Information appears in your field of vision, but in such a way that it doesn’t obstruct your view of the road. BMW showed off a working prototype of the glasses earlier this month at the Shanghai Auto Show.

GRANTS PASS, Oregon (PNN) - April 14, 2015 - For the past several years, the miners from the Galice Mining District, about 30 miles west of Grants Pass, Oregon, have been arguing over who has the rights to the minerals in the ground around Galice Creek.

JUNEAU, Alaska (PNN) - April 11, 2015 - The Alaska House of Representatives passed a bill Monday forcing the federal government to uphold the Alaska Statehood Act’s land transfer entitlement.

The legislation transfers ownership of 5.5 million square acres of land back to Alaska, along with an additional 100 million square acres of public land.