Check out the latest innovations, tech achievements, and trending discoveries you missed this week in science.

In an age dominated by tumultuous current events, it's easy to forget that we live in a groundbreaking time in history. Humans want to understand the world around us. Though it's our flaws and our fears that make headlines, our curiosity is what defines us—and lately, we have done some pretty cool things. This era is a time of incredible expansion and discovery in the world of science.

Here are just a few of this week's most noteworthy innovations, tech achievements, and strange discoveries that you may have missed.

A Cure for Cat Allergies—Maybe?

Courtesy of Canna Pet

It's estimated that 10 to 20 percent (at minimum) of people are allergic to cats. But cats are great, right?

Most humans think so. In 2006, the company Allerca introduced something you've probably heard of—the "hypoallergenic" cat. Interestingly, cat allergies in humans are triggered by just two genes, so breeding to eliminate the presence of these genes must be super-easy, right?

Unfortunately, not so. By 2010, Allerca had stopped taking orders, and most cat-allergic-yet-cat-loving cat owners had pivoted to a common treatment—regular injections to eliminate the allergen (in either you, or the cat) and/or food fed to the cat to reduce production of the allergen in cats' bodies. Regardless, the current solution was operative-functional at best. Until now.

Now, a car-allergic-yet-cat-loving cat owner might pop open a can of allergy-reducing cat food (or regular vaccines) that eliminate or reduce production of the gene (Fel d1) in cats (that causes severe reactions in many humans. The science behind it? Gene-editing technology, this one specifically being called CRISPR/Cas9. If these methods prove effective, this could mean a treatment mechanism for not just cat allergies specifically, but for most allergies that we can be applied on a regular basis.

Dark Side of the Moon: It's No Longer Mysterious

Courtesy of NDTV

It's amazing how little we know about our nearest cosmic body, our very own moon. Among those unknown things is pretty much everything about the moon's distant hemisphere that has been left unstudied as of yet. However, lately, China has studied it. China's Chang e-4 lander and Yutu-2 rover have been examining the composition of the planet's surface (or crust), and they've found? It's mostly alternating layers of "coarse rock and fine soil," interestingly implying, according to experts, "a history of impact."

Maybe we really don't know that much about the moon.

African Turquoise Killfish Know How to Pause Aging

Courtesy of BBC

A study of the fascinating creatures called African Turquoise Killfish has examined how they are able to survive for so long—and has found the answer to be that they can hit the pause button on aging. In a February 21 report in Science, a study found that African Turquoise Killfish embryos can elect a state called diapause that can effectively put their aging (to even the most basic cellular level) entirely on hold.

What does this mean? We have no idea. But that's pretty interesting, am I right? Put their aging on pause. No word on when this pause button will be implemented in the human race.

What do you think of these scientific discoveries? Pretty amazing, right? What a time to be alive. Share what you learned this week in the comments.