Adam Rippon Won't Be An NBC Correspondent For The Olympics
The Olympic athlete declined NBC's job offer in a series of tweets.

Revolutionary Olympian Dick Fosbury has died at age 76
Fosbury died over the weekend at age 76 from lymphoma. But the "Fosbury flop" lives on, practiced by high jump athletes around the world.

Can the Winter Olympics survive climate change?
The Winter Olympics have already been postponed due to climate change and lack of quality snow, leaving many to wonder how the Games will go on.

Athletes Force A Change In Ban Of Russians At Paralympics
The tipping point to the rapid turn of events Thursday was "a very, very volatile environment" in the athletes village in Beijing at the Paralympics.
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Who's who on Twitter? 'Verified' impostors blur the lines
Impostors have always been a problem on social media, but some worry that Twitter's new verification process is a step in the wrong direction.

Water crises threaten the lives of 190 million children in Africa
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Tracking brown macroalgae in the Atlantic Ocean
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