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A high school sophomore won the youth achievement Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award for inventing a new method to detect a lethal cancer
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The recipient of the Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award for natural sciences blazed a new view of how to treat infectious diseases via genetics
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Meet the most famous inventor you’ve never heard of – whose greatest invention may be himself
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The neurologist’s latest investigations of the mind explore the mystery of hallucinations – including his own
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Combustion experiments conducted in zero gravity yield surprising results
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New evidence suggests that fire may have influenced the evolution of the human mind
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Pollutants from crude stoves are responsible for many deaths – a D.C.-based NGO has a solution
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Our editor-in-chief introduces the inaugural Smithsonian American Ingenuity Awards
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Scientists examine what chemicals make the Asian fruit smell like "turpentine and onions, garnished with a gym sock"
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David Liittschwager travels to the world's richest ecosystems, photographing all the critters that pass through his "biocube" in 24 hours
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Born in desperation and long mocked, the social media platform has become a popular research and intelligence-gathering tool
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And the odds of spinning a penny are even more skewed in one direction, but which way?
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After decades of uncertainty, a new study confirms that both polar ice sheets are melting
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Were these Late Cretaceous dinosaurs just the culmination of an evolutionary trend towards ever-larger body size or was something else at work?
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Follow along as we award the best innovators of the year
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In a new book, 75 artists illustrate questions scientists haven't fully answered yet
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Was the early bird Archaeopteryx more of a glider than a flier?
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Scientists argue that grasping hands and feet, good vision and other primate adaptations emerged because the mammals plucked fruits from the ends of tree branches
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The newly discovered quasar spews an amount of energy equivalent to more than two million suns
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