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Obesity Could Be the True Killer for Football Players
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VIDEO: See a Thought Move Through a Living Fish’s Brain
By using genetic modification and a florescent-sensitive probe, Japanese scientists captured a zebrafish's thought in real-time
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The system uses surgically implanted electrodes so that a blind person can "see" the letters
November 22, 2012
| By Joseph Stromberg
Everyone knows that birds are dinosaurs, but what kind of dinosaur is your holiday turkey?
November 22, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Another study debunks the idea that the lunar cycle triggers mental instability
November 21, 2012
| By Joseph Stromberg
Were extra-thick hides the secret to why paleontologists have found so much fossilized hadrosaur skin?
November 21, 2012
| By Brian Switek
James Anderson, the winner of a Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award, has discovered the alarming link between climate change and ozone loss
December 2012
| By Sharon Begley
Pollutants from crude stoves are responsible for many deaths – a D.C.-based NGO has a solution
December 2012
| By Ingfei Chen
Meet the most famous inventor you’ve never heard of – whose greatest invention may be himself
December 2012
| By Franz Lidz
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You’ve never been so interested in being bored
November 20, 2012
| By Linda Rodriguez McRobbie
When did dinosaurs start to become giants? Enigmatic bone fragments found in England complicate the debate
November 20, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Scientists say the hormone ghrelin can drive us to eat high-calorie foods like desserts, even on a full stomach
November 20, 2012
| By Joseph Stromberg
Sure, it can get aggravating, but here are some innovations that are making it easier and more enjoyable to take a trip
November 20, 2012
| By Randy Rieland
A new study indicates that, like humans, these great apes go through a nadir of happiness in middle age
November 19, 2012
| By Joseph Stromberg
The winner of the Smithsonian Ingenuity Award for technology hopes to launch a revolution with his spaceship and electric car
December 2012
| By Carl Hoffman
A high school sophomore won the youth achievement Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award for inventing a new method to detect a lethal cancer
December 2012
| By Abigail Tucker
The recipient of the Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award for natural sciences blazed a new view of how to treat infectious diseases via genetics
December 2012
| By Seth Mnookin
The neurologist’s latest investigations of the mind explore the mystery of hallucinations – including his own
December 2012
| By Ron Rosenbaum
Though not as famous as other huge dinosaurs, Futalognkosaurus is the most complete giant sauropod ever found
November 19, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Fossil finds from Tanzania in the mid-20th century kicked off East African hominid hunting
November 19, 2012
| By Erin Wayman
Combustion experiments conducted in zero gravity yield surprising results
December 2012
| By Ker Than
New evidence suggests that fire may have influenced the evolution of the human mind
December 2012
| By Thomas Wynn
Our editor-in-chief introduces the inaugural Smithsonian American Ingenuity Awards
December 2012
| By Michael Caruso
Only if utility companies are able to make their power grids smart enough to spot outages and "heal" themselves.
November 16, 2012
| By Randy Rieland
The devastating drought of the 1930s forever changed American agriculture. Could those conditions return?
November 16, 2012
| By Sarah Zielinski
Slender limb bones found in Argentina give away a new species of tiny dinosaur
November 16, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Astronomers have spotted an object roughly 100 light-years away that appears to be a planet not associated with any star
November 16, 2012
| By Joseph Stromberg
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