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Brightest galaxy in the universe 

This year NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, one of the agency's most powerful telescopes, located the brightest galaxy in the universe to date. The galaxy emits 300 trillion suns worth of light.

A new bionic lens

Ocumentic Technology Corp. has spent $3 million toward eight years of research and development and, finally, in May, promised an eight-minute surgery to provide patients with bionic lenses that can improve eyesight to three times better than normal vision.

Changing human leukemia cells into immune cells

In March, Stanford University scientists revealed a method that may be able to force malicious leukemia cells to change into harmless immune cells, called macrophages. This discovery could lead to transforming human cancer cells into macrophages, which can then digest and destroy cancer cells and pathogens.