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Stunning Microscope Videos Highlight Self-Pollination, Algae and Tumor Cells in the Nikon Small World in Motion Contest
The annual video competition focuses on the tiny wonders of the natural world
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This Week, the Popular SAAM Arcade Is Game On for Video Game Makers
Chris Totten reflects on how the gaming community around SAAM Arcade has grown since the first event debuted seven years ago
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Get Down With This Year’s “Dance Your PhD” Winners
Acrobatic human tornadoes and pair-dancing inertial confinement fusion implosions are among this year’s favorites
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Announcing the Winners of the 2014 Smithsonian In Motion Video Contest
Watch the best of our submissions
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This Video Contest Entry is a Mindblowing Display of Visualized and Distorted Sound
An interview with new media artist James Alliban about his reality bending installation, Bipolar.
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Announcing Our Video Contest Finalists
View our judges’ top 25 picks, and help us select the Readers’ Choice Award winner!
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Editor’s Pick: Wrongfully Admitted to Sunbury Asylum
In 1945, Maraquita Sargeant, a mother of five young children, was admitted against her will to Sunbury Mental Asylum in Australia
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Editor’s Pick: The Tape Artist
Using empty boxes and masking tape, artist Sarah Anne DiNardo crafts beautiful and ornate sculptures
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Editor’s Pick: Hearing Aids in the Developing World
The Starkey Hearing Foundation’s initiative to donate one million hearing aids to children in the developing world by 2020