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Artist's rendering of Dreadnoughtus schrani

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Meet Dreadnought, Largest Dinosaur In The World

Dreadnought is the largest dinosaur in the world to be scientifically described

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Lego Is the Biggest Toy Company in the World

Lego overtook Mattel this year to become the world’s most-profitable toy company

An artist's interpretation of a mission to an Asteroid

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Contribute to an Asteroid Time Capsule

NASA wants to know what your predictions are for the future of Solar System exploration

1 kilometer (0.62 mile)-long fissure in Iceland's Holuhraun lava field on August 29

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Icelandic Volcano Is Erupting Spectacularly (And Relatively Quietly)

The eruption, currently spewing lava fountains, could go on for a year

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RIP Sexy Space Geckos

The five geckos sent to space have all died

A rhesus macaque. Not one with ebola

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Ebola Drug ZMapp Cured 18 Monkeys

How well the drug works in humans, however, isn’t so clear

An artist's concept of the SLS heavy-lift rocket

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Meet the Newly Approved Rocket That Will Take People To Mars

The approval of the Space Launch System is an important step for NASA

People ride past a board with control and prevention information of the Ebola epidemic outbreak in the Ebola-affected Freetown, capital of Sierra Leone, Aug. 17, 2014.

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What Will It Take to Stop Ebola?

The WHO has a plan for stopping the Ebola outbreak

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The Secret to Instagram’s New Video App Is Already in Your Phone

The ability to create moving, time-lapse videos is in your hands, thanks to gyroscopes

The Glines Canyon Dam on the Elwha River, shown here in 2012

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Dams Removed On Washington State River

The removal of dams on the Elwha river is the largest dam removal to take place

Photovoltaic solar panels and wind turbines, San Gorgonio Pass Wind Farm, Palm Springs, California, USA.

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In the U.S., Solar Energy Has More Than Doubled Since Last Year

Solar voltaic energy is a small, but growing, piece of the American energy pie

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Public Health Orgs Are Weighing In on E-Cigarettes

The AHA is neutral on e-cigarettes in U.S., but the WHO wants to ban them indoors

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Dear Americans: You Don’t Understand What the Burger King-Tim Hortons Merger Means to Canadians

Tim Hortons is a core component of the amorphous “Canadian identity”

A building downtown at 2nd and Brown sustained damage from the 6.0 earthquake in Napa.

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A New Way to See Earthquakes: Peoples’ Fitness Trackers

Yesterday’s Napa earthquake woke people up

This thread-like RNA (ribonucleic acid) virus is the cause of ebola haemorrhagic fever in humans. It takes its name from the location of the first recorded outbreak near the Ebola river in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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A Separate Outbreak of Ebola Emerges in the Congo

Researchers think the Ebola outbreak is independent of the one in West Africa

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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

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Demand for Renewable Energy Is Real

But the industry still has a few hitches to work out—like solar panels burning birds

Warm temperatures are contributing to, among other things, the drought in the western U.S.

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ICYMI: July Was Really, Really Hot

This past July was the fourth hottest on record

Clouds of ash from the 2011 Grímvötn eruption in Iceland

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One of Iceland’s Volcanoes Is Rumbling

It looks like another one of Iceland’s volcanoes is ready to erupt

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Why Are People Afraid of Colgate Total Toothpaste?

Bloomberg reports that customers are abandoning Colgate’s Total brand because it contains triclosan

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