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  Japan gives Boeing 787 clearance to return to service once battery fixes are implemented

  By Nathan Ingraham on April 26, 2013 12:30 pm + 17 comments

  Japan's transportation minster has announced that the country will allow the troubled 787 Dreamliner Continue reading…

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  What caused a massive, deadly explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant?

  By Jeff Blagdon on April 18, 2013 12:17 pm + 99 comments

  At around 6:50PM yesterday in West, Texas, just a few miles from Waco, a fertilizer plant plant Continue reading…

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  The Boston Marathon bombing: after the manhunt, the search for answers continues

  By Adi Robertson on April 16, 2013 01:51 pm

  On April 15th, 2013, two bombs exploded at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. As photographs of Continue reading…

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  What we know about the Boston Marathon explosions: 173 injured, no one in custody

  By Adi Robertson on April 16, 2013 10:41 am + 103 comments

  As police and the FBI investigate two explosions at the Copley Square finish line of the Boston Continue reading…

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  Explosions during Boston Marathon leave at least 100 injured, three dead

  By Adi Robertson on April 15, 2013 03:23 pm + 386 comments

  Explosions at the Boston Marathon finish line have been reported widely on Twitter and captured on Continue reading…

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  Russian politician joins conspiracy theorists, blames meteor explosion on US military

  By T.C. Sottek on February 17, 2013 02:38 pm + 192 comments

  The meteor explosion that rocked Russia last week may be late to the end times party, but that Continue reading…

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  Russia rocked by meteor explosion

  By Sam Byford on February 15, 2013 01:08 am + 308 comments

  Reports from the Russian region of the Ural Mountains suggest that a meteor may have exploded 10,000 Continue reading…

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  Witness a star explode over 58 years in this time-lapse video

  By Chris Welch on January 24, 2013 03:34 pm + 26 comments

  It was in 1901 — 112 long years ago — that the star GK Persei first exploded in a spectacular Continue reading…

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  Watch this: MIT's adorably nerdy hack during 1982 Harvard-Yale game

  By Amar Toor on November 19, 2012 05:54 am + 80 comments

  Saturday marked the 129th installment of Harvard-Yale, one of college football's most storied Continue reading…

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  Watch this: collapsing solar filaments cause an explosion on the sun

  By Andrew Webster on September 5, 2012 01:45 pm + 38 comments

  On August 31st there was an explosion on the sun and NASA managed to capture the event for your Continue reading…