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Bitcoin May Get a Whole Lot More Useful Soon
An eBay-owned company—that runs payments systems for AirBnB & Uber—is thinking about accepting Bitcoin
Demand for Renewable Energy Is Real
But the industry still has a few hitches to work out—like solar panels burning birds
ICYMI: July Was Really, Really Hot
This past July was the fourth hottest on record
One of Iceland’s Volcanoes Is Rumbling
It looks like another one of Iceland's volcanoes is ready to erupt
Why Are People Afraid of Colgate Total Toothpaste?
Bloomberg reports that customers are abandoning Colgate's Total brand because it contains triclosan
The Latest Commercial Satellite Can See a Dinner Plate from Space
DigitalGlobe's WorldView-3 has a resolution of just over nine inches
Boko Haram Has Displaced 400,000 People, Even As the Nigerian Military Fights Back
The situation in Nigeria has only been getting worse
The NSA Seems to Have a Leaker Problem
Signs point to there being more than one NSA leaker
This Female Mathematician Just Became the First Woman to Ever Win the Fields Medal
The Fields Medal is mathematics' equivalent to the Nobel Prize
Here's What the Real People Robin Williams Portrayed Had to Say About Him
Robin Williams played a number of real people throughout his career
WHO Says ZMapp Is Ethical; Too Bad There's None Left
Small supplies of the drug bring up a whole host of other ethical dilemmas
The Perseids Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight
Watch the remains of comet Swift-Tuttle burn up in the atmosphere
Irbil, the Iraqi City the US Is Now Defending, Is One of the Oldest Continuously Inhabited Places in the World
Irbil, Iraq, has a long, long, long history
Hawaii Braces for Two Hurricanes—Its First in 22 Years
Hawaii doesn't see direct hits from hurricanes very often
Who's Better at Pokémon, Anarchist Twitch Players or a Betta Fish?
Anarchy seems to be more effective than a fish, so far
The World’s First Climate Change Refugees Were Granted Residency in New Zealand
A Tuvalese family said they can't go home because of climate change
35 Years Later, Some Khmer Rouge Leaders Convicted of Crimes Against Humanity
The genocidal Khmer Rouge revolution took place from 1975 to 1979
This Is Why the Park Service Banned Drones—One Just Crashed Into a Famous Hot Spring
This is why we can't have nice things
If a Monkey Takes a Photo, No One Owns Copyright
The contested photo likely belongs to neither monkey nor man, but to the public domain
The Gulf of Mexico's Dead Zone Is the Size of a Small State
The Gulf of Mexico's dead zone actually shrunk this year—but it's still the size of Connecticut
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