A Halifax researcher has made a breakthrough when it comes to gene editing that could lead to significant progress in cancer treatment. CRISPR, named 2015’s breakthrough discovery of the year, stands for “Clustered Regularly-Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats.” It can accurately target and edit DNA, offering the potential to cure genetic diseases and find new treatments for cancer.

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are mysterious and rarely detected bursts of energy from space. They have durations of milliseconds and exhibit the characteristic dispersion sweep of radio pulsars. They suspect the bursts come from an extremely powerful object that occasionally produces multiple bursts in under a minute. All fast radio bursts (FRBs) detected before this one appear to have been …

20 years after the first Boxster made its debut, Porsche is restructuring its mid-engine roadsters. The designation for the new generation of models is 718 Boxster and 718 Boxster S. The two-seat convertibles, which celebrate their premiere at the International Motor Show in Geneva, are now more powerful yet more fuel efficient. With them, Porsche continues the tradition of the …

On March 3, 1991, four police officers were filmed beating taxi driver Rodney King after a pursuit through the streets of Los Angeles. The video shocked the city, and the events that followed shocked the nation. George Holiday recorded this scene from his apartment balcony. It shows LAPD officers beating a man later identified as Rodney King. King, who was …

A climbing instructor at Funtopia in Surrey has been fired after she was filmed failing to come to the aid of a crying four-year-old girl – because she was too busy on her cellphone. Happy Lani posted the video to her Facebook page Wednesday, which shows her child crying while being ignored by a staff member for roughly 50 seconds. …

The Opéra de Montréal is turning Pink Floyd’s The Wall into an opera for its 2016-2017 season to mark the city’s 375th anniversary. Roger Waters wrote The Wall after an incident at a 1977 Pink Floyd show at Montreal’s Olympic Stadium in which he spat on a fan and guitarist David Gilmour refused to perform on the band’s encore. Roger …

Gator in pool? A lakeland family was in for a shock when they discovered a 9-foot, 300-pound alligator hanging out in their swimming pool. Craig Lear, 38, came home from work around 5:30 p.m. and let his cats out in the backyard screened-in patio. He noticed bubbles rising to the surface of his pool, but because they live on a …

Brian Encinia, the Texas state trooper who arrested Sandra Bland, has officially been fired by the Texas Department of Public Safety. Brian Encinia can still appeal against the decision, which came after a grand jury indicted him on a charge of perjury in December. He was accused of lying about the July 2015 arrest of Sandra Bland after a confrontational …

The American Sleep Apnea Association (ASAA) has partnered with IBM Watson to launch a ResearchKit study app, called SleepHealth. Researchers aim to use the app to explore the connection between sleep habits and health outcomes. It’s also the first ResearchKit app to partner with IBM Watson. The SleepHealth study uses the open source ResearchKit designed by Apple to make it …

Joey Feek shared “one last kiss” with her family before she fell into a deep sleep over the weekend. In his blog, This Life I Live , Rory Feek wrote that his wife’s hospice nurse delivered some bad news Monday.

Footage of a March 1 gun store robbery in southwest Houston has been released, showing the moment at least 10 suspects raided the store and escaped with at least 50 weapons. Houston police say as many as 10 suspects raided the store and got away with at least 50 weapons. The amount of weapons is not counting those they dropped …