NASA's Solar Probe will actually touch the Sun

In untold ways, humanity is as clueless about our own star (the sun) as it was a generation ago.  But that should change soon after
the projected July 2018 launch of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) ’s Solar Probe Plus (SPP) — a $1.5 billion spacecraft that will travel closer to its surface than any previous man-made object.
Nearly 60 years after NASA first discussed sending a suicide probe into the Sun itself, the space agency is making good on a probe that will travel nearly ten times closer to our star than the planet Mercury.  The hope is that, in the process, Solar Probe Plus will provide new data about the Sun’s effects on everything from space weather to short term climate change.
    

Facebook employees outside the U.S. can now benefit from its parental leave policy

Last week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he plans to take two months off after the birth of his daughter, echoing the tech industry's recent investment in paid parental leave. That two months is half of Facebook's current policy, which allows some new parents in the US to take up to four months off. Now Facebook is expanding that policy to include all new parents in the company who work full-time, regardless of gender or location.