Daily briefing: Editing the epigenome with CRISPR to treat disease

You have full access to this article via your institution. Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here . People get relief from a water hose on 25 June in Cologne, Germany, as a record-setting heatwave pummels the nation. Credit: Ina Fassbender/AFP via Getty A record-breaking heat wave is baking Europe, hot on the heels of unprecedented temperatures in May. “Heatwaves are here to stay, until we turn the tap off to global emissions,” says Samantha Burgess, deputy director of Europe’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. “They’re more frequent, they’re more intense and they’re lasting longer.” Europe is heating up twice as fast as the global average, and scientists are trying to understand the complex factors that will determine whether this year’s sweltering heat should be considered ‘the new normal’. Nature | 7 min read Source: Zeke Hausfather/Berkeley Earth A Chinese supercomputer called LineShine has shot to the top of the world’s fastest computers list — the first China-based system to achieve this ranking in almost a decade. LineShine combines conventional computer processing with artificial-intelligence capabilities, but doesn’t use graphics processing units (GPUs), the chips that are usually required to handle the concurrent calculations needed for AI computation. …