In science news around the world, the surprising landslides after an earthquake in Japan may have occurred because of slippery volcanic deposits. President Donald Trump names a physicist who is a vocal climate change doubter to the National Security Council. Google releases a search engine for data sets. Nearly nine in 10 university clinical trials in the European Union fail to report results within the 1-year time frame set by EU rules, a study reports. An astrophysicist previously overlooked for the Nobel Prize wins a Breakthrough Prize and promises to donate the money to a scholarship for women and ethnic minority students in physics. The first test of a gene-editing tool in people yields hints it could help treat a rare, inherited metabolic disorder. NASA should build a large space telescope to image Earth-like planets around other sunlike stars, says a report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

在世界各地的科学新闻中，日本地震后发生的令人惊讶的山体滑坡可能是由于火山沉积物滑溜引起的。唐纳德·特朗普总统任命一名物理学家，他是国家安全委员会的主要气候变化质疑者。Google发布了数据集搜索引擎。一项研究报告称，在欧盟，十分之九的大学临床试验中，有近九分之三未能在欧盟规定的一年时间内报告结果。一位之前被诺贝尔奖忽视的天体物理学家获得了突破奖，并承诺将这笔钱捐赠给物理学领域的女性和少数民族学生奖学金。对人类基因编辑工具的首次测试表明，它可以帮助治疗罕见的遗传性代谢疾病。