Here are Science Magazine's picks for the coolest things that happened in science this year

"Science Magazine announced its top pick for "breakthrough of the year" this week — and it's a great choice! CRISPR, the gene-editing technique, definitely dominated the news in 2015. For the uninitiated, scientists use CRISPR to target and alter DNA segments with a high level of accuracy. It’s very cool — and very controversial. So this year, the biggest science story was accompanied by an intense debate over the ethics of a method that could, hypothetically, be used to permanently alter the human gene pool."

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