Discover Magazine
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Congo Volcanic Eruption Threatens to Surround Native Chimps With Lava
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5 Reasons Body Scanners May Not Solve Our Terrorism Problem
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Hubble Spies Baby Galaxies That Formed Just After the Big Bang
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Climate Intelligence Agency? Spooks Share Satellite Pics With Climate ...
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Breaking News on Black Holes: They “Waltz” in Pairs, Rip Stars Apart
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New Images Reveal Traces of Ancient (and Life-Friendly?) Martian Lakes
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Who Needs DNA? Prions Evolve Without It
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Kepler Telescope Spies First Its 5 Exoplanets, Including “Styrofoam” World
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Spirit Rover’s 6th Anniversary on Mars Is Likely Its Last
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TSA Threatens Bloggers Who Published Security Info, Then Backs Off
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Frogs Pee Away Scientists’ Attempt to Study Them Researchers from the Charles Darwin University in Darwin, Australia (they ... January 06, 2010 03:45 PM |
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The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has seen first light ... January 06, 2010 03:28 PM |
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ABC News embraces the nonsense You may have heard the recent news that an expert panel of pediatricians ... January 06, 2010 12:03 PM |
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A Fruit Fly With a Laser-Shaved Penis Just Can’t Catch a Break When it comes to peculiar penises, there’s no shortage in the animal ... January 06, 2010 10:19 AM |
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The passage of time (and space) A few weeks ago the AMNH posted a video . It has gone viral, with 1.8 ... January 06, 2010 10:00 AM |
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Frankenhuman! 9 Lab Animals That Add Up to 1 Person
Taken (or stitched) together, the animals used in medical research form a kind of laboratory doppelganger for humans—similar biology, fewer moral qualms. January 05, 2010 |
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Are Black Holes the Architects of the Universe? Long known for their obliterating power, black holes may also have been a creative force: New evidence suggests that they gave order to the chaotic mess produced by the Big Bang. January 04, 2010 |
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Bone/Tendon Hybrids Could Quickly Repair Injury A new synthetic connector could help bridge the gap between mineral-rich bone and fully organic tissue. January 04, 2010 |
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Did We Mate With Neanderthals, or Did We Murder Them? In some places, we ate them. More generally, modern humans' more varied lifestyle may have been the key to the survival. December 30, 2009 |
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Science Nation Video: Japanese Quake Test
December 30, 2009 |
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#51: Oldest Musical Instrument Found 35,000 years ago, humans in what's now Germany were making sophisticated flutes from the bones of griffon vultures. |
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20 Things You Didn't Know About... What's the connection between Steve Wozniak, the Pope, and Henry Kissinger? That's right, it's hacking. |
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Faster than a bird and slower than sound. But that may be besides the point: Efficiency and timing seem to be more important anyway. |
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To get really high-energy X-rays, you need some really powerful magnets. |
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The 3-D Simulation that Lets Your Surgeon Practice...on You A new technology lets doctors test out procedures on a simulation of the patient's anatomy. |
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The young woman carried a baby that wasn't her own—and wasn't even a human. |
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Hint: These plates cover a creature that's flat and round—hence its name. |
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Miles of Wire, Reams of Print-Outs, and a Giant Discovery Jocelyn Bell Burnell worked through old-school equipment and old-school sexism to find the first pulsar—the beginning of an extraordinary life in science. |
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The Banks That Prevent—Rather Than Cause—Global Crises Seed banks put some much-needed wild vigor back into today's specialized varieties, protecting critical crops from being wiped out. |
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Five Questions: Turning Microbes Into Micro Refineries Synthetic biologist Reshma Shetty predicts that we will eventually engineer organisms to grow everything that we manufacture today. |
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