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Bad Astronomy

Friends in high places

Two friends of mine were recently inducted into the National Academy of ...

Cosmic Variance

Things You Can’t Say in School

A decision came down this week from the U.S. District Court in Central ...

The Loom

A Request For The Design Hive Mind: Vote For A Tangled Bank Book Cover

[Update 4:30 pm: I left off one of the covers (Tiktaalik3) from the ...

Discoblog

Weird Science Roundup: Psychedelic Science, Melting Ski Runs, and Virtual ...

• We all know the snows of Kilimanjaro are melting and Mt. Everest ...

Articles

The Inspiring Boom in "Super-Earths"

At last we are finding rocky planets like our own. But some are pretty weird: The smallest may have a mineral-vapor atmosphere that condenses as lava rain or rock snow.

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.

The Best NASA Satellite Photos from the Last 50 Years

Solar storms, choking cities, and glories in the sky, captured on film.

Can Giant Robots Successfully Mine the Mile-Deep Seafloor?

The economic collapse threatens the long-held dream of underwater mining.

The Next Source of Green Energy: Your Car Itself

A new MIT invention turns shock absorbers into electric generators.

Departments

20 Things You Didn't Know About...

Money

Interesting info-nuggets about all that stuff you recently sent to the IRS.

The Brain

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.

What Is This?

A Stony, Bloody Battlefield?

Hint: It's related to the rose and can put the "white" back in your pearly whites.

Discover Interview

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.

5 Questions

3 Great Uses of Twitter, According to Cofounder Jack Dorsey

1) Throwing parties 2) Lifeline during a terrorist attack 3) Staying connected with mom

Future Tech

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.

Think Tech

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.

Reviews

The Best of Science Culture This Month

Extreme mammals, animal justice, and the indie version of the Matrix

Field Notes

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.

Vital Signs

Fishy Food

A tropical vacation goes south when a tourist catches something horrible from the catch of the day. But what exactly is it?

The Mysteries of the Cosmos
 








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