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Great Smoky Mountains is the most-visited national park in America. Instead of visiting tourist-packed Pigeon Forge or Gatlinburg, Townsend, Tennessee, offers quieter quarters.

University of Colorado researchers are studying Great Smoky Mountains' fireflies to see if understanding the way they communicate could help with developing robots.

University of Colorado researchers are studying Great Smoky Mountains' fireflies to see if understanding the way they communicate could help with developing robots.

If you think it would be hard to come up with the names of 42 awesome banjo players, you might be right.

If you think it would be hard to come up with the names of 42 awesome banjo players, you might be right.