Today’s renewable energy can either be tomorrow’s trash or tomorrow’s recycling.

Sam Vanderhoof is still thinking about the 12,000 solar panels in Puerto Rico he can’t recycle. Vanderhoof’s recycling site is in Arizona, and the panels, destroyed by Hurricane Maria, are far enough to make the shipping costs unmanageable.

After first getting a call about them in September, Vanderhoof, founder and owner of Solar CowboyZ, a consulting firm in California, hasn’t heard anything. As far as he knows, the panels are still there.

While weather damage is the primary reason why solar photovoltaic (PV) panels need to be recycled, that’s going to change in the next 20 years — and it’s unclear if we’ll be ready for it. According to a report by the United Nations International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), there will be 60 million tons of cumulative PV waste by 2050.

Breaking from scientific and ethical norms, the Chinese researcher claimed he created the world’s first genetically edited babies.

In the 2005 novel Never Let Me Go, Ruth, Tommy and Kathy are watched closely by “guardians” at their boarding school, Hailsham, in the countryside of England. Hailsham is a decidedly … eerie place. Throughout the book, readers get a sense that the characters and the world they inhabit aren’t quite real. One day, a guardian reveals to the students that they’re clones, created for organ donations. After their donations, the children’s fate is sealed: They will die.

Genetic editing, the subject of Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2005 dystopian tale, has seized the imagination — and fear — of humans for decades. Why is the idea both captivating and terrifying? Perhaps because this science always seems like it’s on the brink of being possible, but slightly out of reach.

This week, it became a little more real as Chinese researcher He Jiankui claimed he used the gene-editing tool CRISPR to make the world’s first genetically edited babies. He says he altered the embryos of seven couples (the males had HIV) during in vitro fertilization (IVF). This led to one pregnancy and the birth of twin girls with pseudonyms Lulu and Nana.

True crime podcasts are more popular than ever. The next big thing is to poke fun at them.

Like crime itself, true crime shows seem to come in waves. A major true crime wave spread across American TV during the 1990s with popular shows like America’s Most Wanted. So perhaps it was only a matter of time before the genre took over our earbuds with the outbreak of the true crime podcast.

The popularity of true crime in the wake of hits like Serial and S-Town means that it sometimes feels like everyone with a fascination with murder and access to Wikipedia now has the motive and opportunity to be a copycat Serial podcaster. Indeed, given the declining homicide rate in America over the past half-century, it may not be long before the number of true crime podcasts about murder outstrips the number of actual murders.