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Are We Close to Having a Blood Test That Detects Cancer?
New research into “liquid biopsies” is promising, but there’s still not proof they can find cancer in a healthy person
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How You Wound Up Playing ‘The Oregon Trail’ in Computer Class
From the 1970s to 1990s, the government-owned Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium dominated the educational software market with more than 300 games
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Food is a focal point for understanding broader environmental problems. In this podcast, we learn how food buyers are influenced in surprising ways.
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How to Avoid the Pitfalls in the Politics of Graphic Messaging
The director of the National Portrait Gallery offers a few pointers on how to acquire visual intelligence
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Forget Bees: This Bird Has the Sweetest Deal With Honey-Seeking Humans
The effectiveness of the honeyguide call sheds light on why this golden relationship has stuck around so long
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Smithsonian Journeys Travel Quarterly: Alaska
The Essence of Alaska Lies Somewhere Between Myth and Reality
An Alaska native grapples with the meaning of his home state
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Instead of Painkillers, Some Doctors Are Prescribing Virtual Reality
Virtual reality therapy may be medicine’s newest frontier, as VR devices become better and cheaper
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Chew on This: Powerful Jaws Fueled a Jurassic Herbivore Boom
Teeth, not flowers, might be the key to the duckbills’ success
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The Enduring Climate Legacy of Mauna Loa
Sixty years after a trailblazing climate scientist scaled its heights, the Hawaii-based observatory remains essential
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How Parasites Became So Popular
A new study finds that parasitism evolved independently 223 times. But that number is actually surprisingly low
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Were Ants the World’s First Farmers?
A new study shows that a group of ants have been conducting a subsistence type of farming since shortly after the dinosaurs died out
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It was precisely because poetry wasn’t hated that Plato feared it, writes the Smithsonian’s senior historian David Ward, who loves poetry
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What the Candidates (and Journalists) Can Learn From the 1948 Democratic Convention
The first time television was beamed into millions of homes meant that presidential politics would have to change
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Please Touch the Art: This Artist Creates Tactile Portraits for the Blind
Andrew Myers uses screws to make 3-D masterpieces for curious fingers
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There’s No Wrong Way to Make a Tadpole (or Froglet)
Marsupial frogs, “vomit frogs” and foam-spewers reveal the glorious range of frog baby-making techniques
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Why Chemicals in the U.S. Are Still “Innocent Until Proven Guilty”
A new chemical bill makes major strides, but doesn’t fix the root problem
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