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The camel cousin evolved fluff instead of fat because it was able to linger in an evolutionary slow lane, suggest newly sequenced genomes
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Exclusive: The Chimpanzees of Gombe National Park Make Their Street View Debut
For its latest collection, Google traveled to the African rainforest where Jane Goodall pioneered her groundbreaking chimp research
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Lego Jewelry Transforms the Childhood Toy to High Fashion Art
Artist emiko oye turns colorful children’s blocks into items that are ready to wear, not play
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Gorgeous Portraits of Spineless Sea Creatures
In a new book, San Francisco-based photographer Susan Middleton captures the curious gestures and expressions of marine invertebrates
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Five Conflicts and Collapses That May Have Been Spurred by Climate Change
Earth’s changing climate has been a spectre in centuries of civil conflict and, at times, the collapse of whole civilizations
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Testing for Cancer With a Single Blood Sample
Startup Miroculus has developed a system that screens for dozens of cancers in 90 minutes
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Unearthing America’s Lawrence of Arabia, Wendell Phillips
Phillips uncovered millennia-old treasures beneath Arabian sand, got rich from oil and died relatively unknown
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A World Of His Own: The Art of James Castle
Born profoundly deaf, the self-taught artist’s body of work depicts his unique relationship to the world around him
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Richard Estes’ Incredibly Realistic Paintings Require a Double Take
Like stage sets, there seem to be a million stories embedded in the works of Richard Estes, icon of photorealism
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No flock will mess with this robot – which is precisely the point
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The 2014 Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award Winners
These 10 innovators in science, history, society and the arts are a testament to the imagination and hard work that define the nation’s spirit
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Can Fingerpainting Save the World?
Brooklyn artist Zaria Forman has Arctic landscapes at her fingertips
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James Marsh Enters Stephen Hawking’s Universe
The director on his new film, The Theory of Everything
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The History of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, 50 Years After Its Construction
Built in 1964, the span still stands as Americas’ largest suspension bridge
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Is This the Future of Robotic Legs?
Hugh Herr’s bionic limbs have already revolutionized life for amputees (including himself). Now he’s envisioning new capabilities for everyone else
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The Amazing Results When You Give a Prison Inmate a Liberal Arts Education
Prison reform activist Max Kenner champions the transformative power of a college degree for inmates nationwide
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When Dazzling Art Transforms the Cityscape
Janet Echelman’s sky-high sculptures, created from miles of fiber, cast a magical spell over urban spaces
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Coming to Terms With One of America’s Greatest Natural Disasters
Documentary filmmaker Bill Morrison plunges us into the Great Flood of 1927
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Meet the Two Scientists Who Implanted a False Memory Into a Mouse
In a neuroscience breakthrough, the duo pioneered a real-life version of Inception
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Could This Be the Answer to the Tech World’s Diversity Problem?
Kimberly Bryant hopes to crack the code with her organization that teaches young girls of color how to program
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