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- Four Months After a Concussion, Your Brain Still Looks Different Than Before http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2013/11/four-months-after-a-concussion-your-brain-still-looks-different-than-before/ 31 comments
- Smart street lamps light up only when needed http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/ideas/2013/12/clever-smart-street-lamps-light-up-only-when-needed/ 21 comments technology
- Soviet Russia Had a Better Record of Training Women in STEM Than America Does Today http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/12/soviet-russia-had-a-better-record-of-training-women-in-stem-than-america-does-today/ 7 comments history
- Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/07/long-before-trees-overtook-the-land-earth-was-covered-by-giant-mushrooms/ 7 comments science
- Even people with "perfect memory" (highly superior autobiographical memory) can be tricked into recalling fake events http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2013/11/even-people-with-perfect-memory-can-be-tricked-into-recalling-fake-events/ 3 comments science
- Conrad Heyer, a Revolutionary War Veteran, Was the Earliest-Born American To Ever Be Photographed http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/11/conrad-heyer-a-revolutionary-war-veteran-was-the-earliest-born-american-to-ever-be-photographed/ 4 comments history
- Science Shows How Reddit Users Are Like Sheep http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2013/08/science-shows-how-reddit-users-are-like-sheep/ 53 comments worldnews
- Radioactive Wastewater From Fracking Is Found in a Pennsylvania Stream http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2013/10/radioactive-wastewater-from-fracking-is-found-in-a-pennsylvania-stream/#.ukx4cpn6i3j.reddit 959 comments science
- Half of children that die before age five live in just five countries: India, Nigeria, China, Pakistan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/09/half-of-children-that-die-before-age-five-live-in-just-five-countries/ 30 comments worldnews
- Scientists love using adverbs http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/08/finally-evidence-of-just-how-much-scientists-love-using-adverbs/ 3 comments linguistics
- Italy Gets Its First Spacewalker http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/07/italy-gets-its-first-spacewalker/ 2 comments space
- Why the Tomato Was Feared in Europe for More Than 200 Years: How the fruit got a bad rap from the beginning http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/2013/06/why-the-tomato-was-feared-in-europe-for-more-than-200-years/ 40 comments history
- E-Readers Don’t Cut Down on Reading Comprehension http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/06/e-readers-dont-cut-down-on-reading-comprehension/ 7 comments science
- For thousands of years before they learned to smelt iron ore, Egyptians were crafting beads and trinkets from it, harvesting the metal from fallen meteorites. http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/05/the-ancient-egyptians-had-iron-because-they-harvested-fallen-meteors/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_campaign=20130530&utm_content=smartnewsancientegyptiron 25 comments history
- China Plans to Regulate Some of Its Carbon Emissions for the First Time Ever http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/05/china-plans-to-regulate-some-of-its-carbon-emissions-for-the-first-time-ever/ 6 comments worldnews
- Cops Could Soon Use Breathalyzers to Test for Illegal Drugs. A study published yesterday in the Journal of Breath Research reveals that scientists can now use breath analysis to test for the presence of 12 different drugs in the body, including cocaine, marijuana and amphetamines. http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2013/04/cops-could-soon-use-breathalyzers-to-test-for-illegal-drugs/ 55 comments science
- Prehistoric Human Skull Show Signs of Inbreeding. A 100,000-year-old skull has a hole that reflects genetic mutations from inbreeding—likely a common behavior for our ancestors http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2013/03/prehistoric-human-skull-shows-signs-of-inbreeding/#.uuhuhkwhbla.reddit 11 comments science
- The true life tragic story that inspired Moby-Dick http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2013/03/the-true-life-horror-that-inspired-moby-dick/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_campaign=20130301&utm_content=pastimperfecttruelifemobydick 5 comments history
- Imagining a Drone-Proof City in the Age of Surveillance http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/design/2013/02/imagining-a-drone-proof-city-in-the-age-of-surveillance/?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_campaign=20130208&utm_content=imaginingadroneproofcityintheageofsurveillance 3 comments technology
- "Earth-Like" Exoplanets May Actually Be Gas Giants "new research suggests that most of these super-Earths may never support life because they are permanently encased in hydrogen-rich atmospheres." http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2013/02/earth-like-exoplanets-may-actually-be-mini-neptunes/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+smithsonianmag%2Fsurprisingscience+%28surprising+science+%7C+smithsonian.com%29 18 comments space
- In the 1920s, shoppers got punk’d by fake televisions http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/2012/11/in-the-1920s-shoppers-got-punkd-by-fake-televisions/ 3 comments technology
- Australian Students Accidentally Taught That Robots Led the Russian Revolution http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/11/australian-students-accidentally-taught-that-robots-led-the-russian-revolution/ 7 comments worldnews
- Newly Discovered Earth-like Planet Could be Habitable http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2012/11/newly-discovered-earth-like-planet-could-be-habitable/#.ukjtt9vixo4.reddit 3 comments science
- Bad News Chemistry: Carbon Dioxide Makes Ice Weaker | Surprising Science http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2012/10/bad-news-chemistry-carbon-dioxide-makes-ice-weaker/ 11 comments science
- Why Did the Mayan Civilization Collapse? New theory points to deforestation and climate change http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2012/08/why-did-mayan-civilization-collapse-deforestation-and-climate-change/ 35 comments science
- Babies are not born with an innate moral compass. New study contradicts previous findings. http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/08/babies-arent-so-moral-after-all-unless-we-engineer-them-that-way/ 18 comments science
- Fracking for Natural Gas Is Linked With Earthquakes http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2012/08/fracking-for-natural-gas-is-linked-with-earthquakes/ 69 comments science
- New RFID Device Could Jam Your Cell Phone While Your Car is Moving: A system developed by engineers in India automatically detects when a driver's phone is in use and uses a low-range mobile jammer to prevent calls and texts http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2012/07/new-rfid-device-could-jam-your-cell-phone-while-your-car-is-moving/ 9 comments technology
- Hey, it's a cat! 16000 processors crunching 10 million YouTube thumbnails made this conclusion without human guidance. http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/06/with-no-human-supervision-16000-computers-learn-to-recognize-cats/ 46 comments technology
- Experiments Show We Really Can Learn While We Sleep http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2012/06/experiments-show-we-really-can-learn-while-we-sleep/ 33 comments science
- Genetic remnants of an ancient infection indicate the mysterious Denisovans, not humans, are Neanderthals' closest cousins http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2012/06/virus-fossils-reveal-neanderthals-kin/ 4 comments science
- The House that Polly Adler Built - She entered the brothel business without apology & set out to become the best madam in America. "A house is not a home." http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2012/04/the-house-that-polly-adler-built/ 3 comments history
- Custom in the Ottoman Empire mandated that a condemned grand vizier could save his neck if he won a sprint against his executioner http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2012/03/the-ottoman-empires-life-death-race/ 5 comments history
- The Stalking of the President - Charles J. Guiteau said he wanted to kill President James A. Garfield "in an American manner" - He passed up several opportunities before he thought the time was right http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2012/01/the-stalking-of-the-president/?2 3 comments history
- Weather Control as a Cold War Weapon http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/2011/12/weather-control-as-a-cold-war-weapon/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+smithsonianmag%2Fhistory-archaeology+%28history+%26+archaeology%29&utm_content=google+reader 7 comments technology
- The 'Boston Globe' of 1900 Imagines the Year 2000 - A utopian vision of Boston promises no slums, no traffic jams, no late mail deliveries &, best of all, night baseball games http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/2011/10/the-boston-globe-of-1900-imagines-the-year-2000/ 22 comments history
- The Last of the Cornish Packmen http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2011/08/04/the-last-of-the-cornish-packmen-2/ 5 comments history
- How Tyrannosaurus Lost a Finger http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2011/05/how-tyrannosaurus-lost-a-finger/ 3 comments science
- Relax -- Triceratops Really Did Exist | The Smithsonian http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2010/08/05/relax-triceratops-really-did-exist/ 12 comments science
- Scientists Discover New Black Hole 500x Larger Than The Sun http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2009/07/02/a-new-kind-of-black-hole/ 4 comments space