A person in Ulster County has been hospitalized with Eastern equine encephalitis, health officials said. It is the first confirmed human case of the disease recorded in the state since 2015.

A human case of eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) was reported in New York for the first time in nearly 10 years, and the state Department of Health is encouraging New Yorkers to take personal protective measures to avoid mosquito bites.

Scientists in the United Kingdom have stored the entire human genome on a “5D memory crystal,” in the hope that it could be used in the future as a blueprint to bring humanity back from extinction.

If humanity ever goes extinct, scientists now have a backup plan: a coin-sized crystal storing the entire human genome. Future species could use this record as an instructional manual to recreate humans some millions—or even billions—of years from the present.

Just in case some aliens, say, come along in a billion years and feel like cloning us from extinction Whether or not some future entity will want to bring humanity back after its eventual extinction is now a theoretical if improbable option,