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A lot happened in science this month. Can you remember it all?

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The [latest](http://ligo.org/science/Publication-GW170814/) was announced this week, and was confirmed by both the LIGO and Virgo experiments. The first detection was announced in [February last year](https://www.buzzfeed.com/kellyoakes/physicists-announce-discovery-of-gravitational-waves).

Four

How many gravitaional wave detections have now been announced?

A team at the Francis Crick Institute in London used a technique called CRISPR-Cas9 to remove a gene in very early embryos. It was the [first time](https://www.buzzfeed.com/tomchivers/british-scientists-have-edited-the-genes-of-human-embryos) this has been done in Britain, and the first time in the world that the technique has been used to help understand the role of genes in early human development.

It's true!

True or False?  
"The genes of human embryos were edited in Britain for the first time, scientists revealed this month."  


NASA and the Russian space agency Roscosmos have [signed](https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-roscosmos-sign-joint-statement-on-researching-exploring-deep-space) a joint statement saying they're going to research the idea of a "deep space gateway" – essentially a space station near the moon.

Russia and the US

Which two countries have announced that they want to team up and build a space station near the moon?

You can see the rift just before it broke off in this image.

That's much, much smaller than the iceberg that broke off the [Larsen C ice shelf](https://www.buzzfeed.com/zahrahirji/iceberg-breaks-off-antarctica?utm_term=.fd3moLOjq#.reMm15xjk) earlier this year.

267km² – over four times the size of Manhattan

An iceberg calved off Pine Island glacier in Antarctica this month. How big was it?

The elusive rat has been rumoured to exist for years but researchers only just managed to confirm that it really does exist. It's scientific name is _[Uromys vika](https://academic.oup.com/jmammal/article-abstract/doi/10.1093/jmammal/gyx116/4237566/A-new-species-of-giant-rat-Muridae-Uromys-from)_.

The Solomon Islands

This illustration shows a new species of giant rat that lives in trees and eats coconuts. Where was it discovered?

Pumpkin toadlets appear to have [lost](http://www.readcube.com/articles/10.1038/s41598-017-12145-5) the ability to hear their own mating calls, but not (yet) lost the ability to make the calls themselves.

It can't hear its own mating calls

What has the pumpkin toadlet – a species of frog in Brazil – lost, according to a paper published this month?

The [Cassini-Huygens mission](https://www.buzzfeed.com/tomchivers/cassini-death-spiral) came to an end when Cassini threw itself towards Saturn – to avoid contaminating any of the planet's potentially habitable moons with earthly microbes. In its lifetime Cassini produced some breathtaking images of Saturn.

The Cassini spacecraft

Which spacecraft ended it's "death spiral" by plunging into Saturn this month, at the end of its 20 year mission to study the planet and its moons?

Also known as upside-down jellyfish. They may not have brains, but according to a [study](http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(17)31023-0) of 23 individuals published this month, they do go dormant for a period at night, and when deprived of this sleep-like state, they struggle – just like sleep-deprived humans do.

Cassiopea jellyfish

Which of these animals did scientists just discover needs sleep?

The 2016 Paris agreement set world governments the goal of keeping global warming to "well below" 2°C above the preindustrial average, with an "aspiration" of keeping it to less than 1.5°C. A study published this month in the journal Nature Geoscience says that this target is still [physically possible](http://nature.com/articles/doi:10.1038/ngeo3031) – although there is still doubt about whether it's [politically or economically viable](https://www.buzzfeed.com/tomchivers/this-study-says-we-might-actually-avoid-catastrophic).

1.5ºC

A new study says the 2016 Paris agreement target for total climate warming isn't a geophysical possibility. What does the agreement want to keep warming below?

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