Top 10 stories of 2018: Climate change, gene-edited babies, hidden craters and more

Hurricane Florence

AN INTENSE YEAR  Researchers quickly determined that climate change fueled the intense rainfall that came with Hurricane Florence, shown here on September 12. Such attribution studies, among other findings, made climate change our top story of 2018.

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In 2018, we saw just how much power science has to make a real impact.