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<h3 style="color: #de1428;">Quantum Physicists Feel the Tug of the Future</h3>
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<h3 style="color: #df6615;">NASA Snaps Pics of Brewing Hurricanes</h3>
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Blogs

Visual Science

Lucy in the Museum With Shrink Wrap

Exhibition model makers working to fit sculptor John Gurche’s ...

Bad Astronomy

Kablam!

This image is stunning. And not just because, well, it’s all ...

The Intersection

Hurricane Earl is Only Getting Stronger–We’d Better Hope Land is Missed

Earl is traveling northward, but not weakening. The National Hurricane ...

Gene Expression

Which American racial group has the lowest fertility?

The really sad events around the Discovery Channel hostage situation, and ...

The Intersection

Hurricane Earl–Track Suggests a Near Miss for the East Coast

Earl is a Category 4 storm again, and the National Hurricane Center has ...

Articles

Climate Change Gets Wet

Researchers have recently started to pay more attention to how water vapor in the atmosphere is related to global warming.

Hurricane Sleuth

Getting the dirt on hurricanes of the future

The Rise of the Machines Is Not Going as We Expected

Robots are becoming ever more ubiquitous, from rescue missions to toddlers' rooms to other planets, but they haven't become much more like us.

Child's Plague: Inside the Boom in Childhood Diabetes

A decade ago juvenile diabetes was rare. A controversial new theory may reveal what causes the disease—and how to keep the incidence from going still higher.

Space Junk: How to Clean Up the Space Age's Mess

Didn't anyone tell space agencies to pick up their toys when they're finished playing? Now scientists have to invent new ways to undo decades of dumping in orbit.

Departments

20 Things You Didn't Know About...

Water

The water under the oceans, how your own hair can burn you, and more

The Brain

What Happens to a Linebacker's Neurons?

A blow to the head can change the neural architecture of the brain from elastic to brittle, with devastating consequences.

Vital Signs

Saving One Life in the Carnage of the Haitian Earthquake

One woman remains brave in the face of life-threatening injuries, while an urgent medical response swings into action.

What Is This?

Discover's Server Room?

Hint: First it flopped. Then it megaflopped.

Discover Interview

The Math Behind the Physics Behind the Universe

Shing-Tung Yau explains how he discovered the hidden dimensions of string theory.

Big Picture

Your Brain in Real Time

Surgeons and scientists are teaming up to study living brains in action.

5 Questions

Hosting Star Parties in Iran

Inspired by Carl Sagan, Babak Tafreshi is on a mission to bring the wonder of astronomy to the Middle East, and to the world.

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