Discover Magazine
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Fantastic Plastic Changes Color When It’s Stretched to the Breaking Point
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Rare Discovery About Mysterious, Giant-Mouthed Shark: Where It Winters
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Nanoscale Origami: A Box—With Lock & Key—Made Entirely of DNA
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Foot Bones and Dwarf Hippos Suggest the “Hobbit” Was a Separate Species
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More Circumstantial Evidence for Dark Matter, But Debate Continues
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Inventors: Shockingly Simple Wave Device Will Beat Wind Energy in Price
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First American Face-Transplant Patient Shows Off Her New Look
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Amazon’s New Kindle E-Reader Aims to Shake Up Academia and Journalism
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Narcolepsy May Be Caused by the Immune System Attacking Brain Cells
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Gates Foundation Invests in Antiviral Tomatoes, Mosquito Fungus, Etc.
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Are Bulletproof Turbans the Next Safety Gear for Sikh Policemen? Is safety on the job so much to ask for? Sikh policemen in England are ... May 07, 2009 03:59 PM |
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Lesson of the Day: Stuffing Songbirds in Your Pants Can Get You Arrested Two Vietnamese men, Duc Le and Sony Dong, were charged this week with ... May 07, 2009 12:44 PM |
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The Universe is expanding at 74.2 km/sec/Mpc How far away are things? That is perhaps the most basic question in ... May 07, 2009 12:11 PM |
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My Rankly Pessimistic AAAS Talk on Science and the Media I’m too lazy to have summarized my talk at AAAS from last ... May 07, 2009 12:03 PM |
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Fringe: Setting People on Fire With Your Brain OK, I kind of loved it when, in this week’s episode of Fringe, ... May 07, 2009 11:19 AM |
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Why Does the Vaccine/Autism Controversy Live On? Research has soundly disproved the alleged connection, yet fears about vaccines continue to be a major risk to public health. May 06, 2009 |
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The Best NASA Satellite Photos from the Last 50 Years
Solar storms, choking cities, and glories in the sky, captured on film. May 05, 2009 |
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Can Giant Robots Successfully Mine the Mile-Deep Seafloor? The economic collapse threatens the long-held dream of underwater mining. May 04, 2009 |
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The Next Source of Green Energy: Your Car Itself A new MIT invention turns shock absorbers into electric generators. May 03, 2009 |
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Tools of the Trade: Multi-Axis Crystal Spectrometer May 03, 2009 |
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20 Things You Didn't Know About... Interesting info-nuggets about all that stuff you recently sent to the IRS. |
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The Big Similarities & Quirky Differences Between Our Left and Right Brains A broken symmetry from our evolutionary heritage is part of what makes us human. |
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Hint: It's related to the rose and can put the "white" back in your pearly whites. |
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The Man Who Found Quarks and Made Sense of the Universe Murray Gell-Mann had a smash success with particles, notorious dustups with Feynman, and a missed opportunity with Einstein. |
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3 Great Uses of Twitter, According to Cofounder Jack Dorsey 1) Throwing parties 2) Lifeline during a terrorist attack 3) Staying connected with mom |
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Can Smart Tech Keep Chevy Volt's Battery Running Longer Than Your Laptop's? GM says that tightly controlling how the battery charges will keep it alive for 10 years/150,000 miles. |
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Bringing Dead-Tree Misfits Into the Digital World A new Fujitsu scanner merges business cards, receipts, and other important pieces of paper with the rest of your data. |
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The Best of Science Culture This Month Extreme mammals, animal justice, and the indie version of the Matrix |
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The Kilogram Isn't What It Used to Be—It's Lighter Within a high-security, climate-controlled vault in France, the perfect kilogram is getting ever so slightly less massive—and no one knows why. |
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A tropical vacation goes south when a tourist catches something horrible from the catch of the day. But what exactly is it? |
