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A devastating storm swept through Washington Friday night. By Saturday morning we were all left wondering, "what in the world had happened?"
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Today at the Folklife Festival: tea dance, African heritage dancers and drummers, and Hungarian roma music
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The famed author and advocate for people with autism looks at the differences in how the human mind operates
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A leading researcher in the field of cognitive development says when children pretend, they’re not just being silly—they’re doing science
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Forget about senior moments. The great news is that researchers are discovering some surprising advantages of aging
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Could you be fooled by a computer pretending to be human? Probably
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With amateurs and pros clamoring for answers, a psychologist who studies screw-ups comes through in the clutch
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Somehow, the brain is greater than the sum of its parts
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New research finds that "man's best friend" could be lifesavers for veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
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Behind the scenes there will be a high-tech, high-stakes competition between Olympic athletes who use banned substances and drug testers out to catch them
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As technology advances, so will access to ingenious—and troubling—new techniques
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On the outer boundaries of the Arctic Circle lies a massive construction project funded by Facebook: the future home of thousands of server farms
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More than just eye candy, these images are teaching scientists new insights into how the brain is organized
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Lured by the soaring price of the precious metal, prospectors are heading for the California hills like it's 1849 all over again
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As her controversial new memoir will show, the leader of the U.S. women’s soccer team has always defended her turf
Readers Respond to the June Issue
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Objects from Muhammad Ali's headgear to Nat Turner's Bible sit in a holding facility in Maryland, ready to be put on display
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The mass media artist has been refashioning our idioms into sharp-edged cultural critiques for three decades—and now brings her work to the Hirshhorn
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