How is CRISPR, and other genetic manipulations, used to treat disease? How did astronomers make the first photo of a black hole? Here are the final top two science stories of 2019! Dr. Leslie Moise reads the poem she wrote about the top 50 science stories of the year, and Professor J Scott Miller tells us how 'super spiral galaxies' help physicists study general relativity. Finally, mass killings...2019 was the worse year since the 1970s. What do experts recommend for reducing future mass killings?

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Bench Talk: The Week in Science | CRISPR; Blackholes: Spiral Galaxies; Mass Killings | Jan 20, 2020 by Forward Radio is licensed under a  Creative Commons License.