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We often think of refugee camps as places where people struggle to get their basic needs met. But a lot of times these needs become the basis for innovative technologies.

This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to three scientists who developed a way to see the world at an even smaller scale. But even though our ability to see into the “nano-dimension” is new, the use of nanotechnology is older than you might think.

New research suggests that, despite this summer’s headlines, the world is actually more peaceful today than in recent history.

Some Muslims have had enough of being told they should apologize for violent Islamic extremists. After President Obama brought the subject up at the UN, many Muslims took to Twitter to sarcastically say “sorry” for everything from algebra to coffee to colorful hijabs.

Soccer’s governing body FIFA is being sued in California over the sport’s handling of concussions. One key to the debate over concussions in soccer is whether FIFA will change its rigid substitution rules at the top professional and international levels.