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Clarius co-founder and CEO Laurent Pelissier believes the affordable, wireless device could revolutionize health care
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But that mass extinction could help us predict what today’s human-wrought climate change may bring
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We’ve bred the original tomato taste out of existence. Now geneticists are asking: Can we put it back?
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The record-breaking Alan Eustace found just the right fit for his 25-mile free fall by marrying scuba technology with a space suit
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Follow frankincense and myrrh on a historic journey through the desert
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The National Zoo's seal-breeding program has another gray seal pup success
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Author Margaret Wise Brown used new theories in childhood education to write the classic children’s book
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A puff adder has just bitten a rat, injecting it with enough venom to finish it off. The next step is to swallow it whole
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From xenophobia to conspiracy theories, the Know Nothing party launched a nativist movement whose effects are still felt today
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Women are grossly under-represented when it comes to recognition in public places, but here are a few places that pay tribute to their contributions
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A 19th-century investigation into the power of the aphrodisiac
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A Smithsonian gardener offers tips for sheltering the insects during the frosty winter months
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Fifty years after a fire killed three astronauts and temporarily grounded U.S. space exploration, a new exhibit honors the fallen crew
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A clogged ear on a scuba trip led a Georgia Institute of Technology engineer to study the dust-filtering properties of the waxy substance
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Biologists are waxing poetic about these unusual oceanic core samples found in the ears of cetaceans
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A Komodo dragon's strongest sensory organ is its deeply forked tongue. It acts as a meal detector that samples the air for dead or dying animals
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The mighty lizard inspires yet another innovation that could prove a boon to robotics and manufacturing
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