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Syrian Kurds flee Kobane as Islamic State forces approach.

ISIS Is Making Its Own Currency

It's the latest step in the insurgent group's attempt to forge a new state

Liver cells infected with Ebola

First Ever Experimental Drug Trials on Ebola Patients to Begin Next Month

Three potential Ebola drugs are being fast tracked to trials in west Africa

Separatist forces walk the streets of Donetsk, Ukraine on November 8th.

Russian Tanks And Troops Are Pouring Into Ukraine, Says NATO

Unmarked troops and equipment have traveled from Russia to Ukraine

A middle-schooler from North Korea who’s family defected listens to a teacher in school south of Seoul

North Korea Subsidizes About 70 Schools in Japan

The institutions are a way for ethnic Koreans to connect to their culture but are also targets of criticism

Rosetta’s OSIRIS narrow-angle camera captured this parting shot of the Philae lander after separation and before touchdown.

Comet 67P Has a Welcome Song for Rosetta And Philae

A successful touchdown after the comet chase is just the herald of more discoveries to come, including the cause of the comet's strange song

Chinese President Xi Jinping in a meeting with President Obama a few years ago

China's Climate Promises: Necessary, But Not Sufficient

The new U.S. and Chinese climate goals are important, but they're not enough to stop the problem

Tomorrow, a Man-made Spacecraft Will Land On a Comet for the First Time, Ever

The action starts bright and early

Newspaper headlines in New York, where people react to the news that Osama bin Laden was killed in a raid in Pakistan.

The Navy SEAL Who Says He Shot Bin Laden Goes Public

Robert O'Neill says he is the SEAL who killed bin Laden

The International Space Station Just Avoided a Collision With Space Junk

A four-minute maneuver by a docked, unmanned European spacecraft pushed the ISS out of the path of a hand-sized chuck of space debris

Atari cartridges and packaging recovered from the Alamogordo landfill are shown off on April 26, 2014.

Atari Games That No One Wanted Now Selling for $500 a Pop

No one wanted Atari's E.T. in 1982, but they want it now

Virgin Galactic unveils SpaceShipTwo, the world's first commercial manned spacecraft at the Mojave airport on December 7, 2009.

Virgin Galactic's Aggressive Plan to Get Back in the Air

The company hopes to resume flying with a new ship by summer 2015

A gray wolf, not the animal spotted at the Grand Canyon

A Lone Gray Wolf May Have Wandered Into the Grand Canyon

Officials haven’t confirmed whether the canine is a full-blooded gray wolf, but wolf advocates are pretty convinced

Even Climate Scientists Are Getting Depressed by Our Lack of Progress

Anxiety about the changing environment isn’t just affecting you and professionals are working to understand it

Participants in costume process with an effigy of Guy Fawkes, to be burned, as they take part in one of a series of processions during Bonfire night celebrations in Lewes, southern England.

Guy Fawkes May Be the Root of the Word “Guys”

The word's meaning has changed a lot throughout the centuries

Scotland Is No Longer Home to the World’s Best Whiskys

When it comes to whisky, Japan, the US and even England now reign supreme

Admire Rakti exercises on November 3rd, getting set for the fatal race.

A Horse Racing Favorite Died Minutes After Completing the Melbourne Cup

Admire Rakti wasn't even the only horse to die at the races

Billionaire Richard Branson is interviewed after unveiling Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo in Mojave, California December 7, 2009.

What SpaceShipTwo's Crash Means for Virgin Galactic And Private Spaceflight

Private spaceflight may see tighter federal regulation

A scene from Uma Nagendra's prize-winning dance about how tornadoes affect ecosystems.

Get Down With This Year’s "Dance Your PhD" Winners

Acrobatic human tornadoes and pair-dancing inertial confinement fusion implosions are among this year's favorites

A worker installs filters on an experimental carbon capture and storage project in Spremberg, Germany, July 19, 2010.

It’s Still Possible to Stop the Worst of Climate Change

Say so long to fossil fuels

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo during its initial unveiling in 2009.

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Just Crashed in California

The private spaceflight company was testing a new fuel for their experimental spaceship

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