It’s official. Hillary Clinton ended speculation on her presidential aspirations Sunday via video announcement. The video focused on regular folks “getting ready” and ended with Hillary: “I’m running for President”. Some analysts expect the Clinton fundraising machine to generate over $2 billion for her second run. But what would a Hillary Clinton presidency look like? Read The Economist’s article on the elusive answer to the Clinton question.

A husband and wife duo at the University of Washington announced that they’ve developed a way to treat color blindness. The procedure involves optical injection of a “protein shell” that reportedly acts as a Trojan horse, spreading and correcting the retina’s sensitivity to color variation. The inability to distinguish certain hues affects 1 in 12 men and 1 in 230 women. Read more about it here.

Twenty-five years ago the Hubble telescope launched into orbit. Since then astronomers and physicists alike have been pouring over Hubble’s photographs, slowly building human understanding of near space. USA Today as the story on the history of what some scientists are calling the greatest scientific instrument in the history of mankind. You can find it here

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