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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
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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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The Latest Commercial Satellite Can See a Dinner Plate from Space
DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-3 has a resolution of just over nine inches
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Boko Haram Has Displaced 400,000 People, Even As the Nigerian Military Fights Back
The situation in Nigeria has only been getting worse
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The NSA Seems to Have a Leaker Problem
Signs point to there being more than one NSA leaker
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This Female Mathematician Just Became the First Woman to Ever Win the Fields Medal
The Fields Medal is mathematics’ equivalent to the Nobel Prize
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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
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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
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The Perseids Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight
Watch the remains of comet Swift-Tuttle burn up in the atmosphere
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Irbil, Iraq, has a long, long, long history
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Hawaii Braces for Two Hurricanes—Its First in 22 Years
Hawaii doesn’t see direct hits from hurricanes very often
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Who’s Better at Pokémon, Anarchist Twitch Players or a Betta Fish?
Anarchy seems to be more effective than a fish, so far
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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
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35 Years Later, Some Khmer Rouge Leaders Convicted of Crimes Against Humanity
The genocidal Khmer Rouge revolution took place from 1975 to 1979
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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
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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
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