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May 9: Yarr! Spain demands U.S. returns shipwreck booty.

Australia seeks biowarfare alternative to National Toad- Whacking Day.

May 8: Boffins bridle bovine burping blunders.

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Discover Magazine

Robot Skunk Works

New bots will explore everything from Mars to your mouth—and perform surgery.

What Is This?

Here's a hint: It's part animal, part vegetable, and a smidge mineral.

Grains of Sand

Microscopic photos of sand show that it's a lot more than just little tan rocks.

Recall of the Wild

From poison frogs to river dolphins, these 5 species are hanging on by a thread.

Better Planet Contest

A contest to show DISCOVER—and the rest of the humans—how to help Mother Earth.

Contains Pork By-Products

Pigs really are dirty—but only because humans make them that way.

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Blogs

Discoblog

Weekly Science Blog Roundup

Save the Planet: Dissolve Your Dead

Better Planet

Weather Satellites In Disrepair

Like The Rest, Myanmar Was Foretold

Health & Medicine

The Wonderful World of E. Coli

What Is This? A Toy Set for a Microscopic Child?

What Happens When an Ovary Dies?

Conquering Your Fears, One Synapse at a Time

How Much Do Chemicals Affect Our Health?

Mind & Brain

Why Bogart's Kiss Is Your Kiss, His Soda Your Soda

Conquering Your Fears, One Synapse at a Time

How Much Do Chemicals Affect Our Health?

Mind-Reading Machine

One Man's Quest to Heal the Brain

Technology

One Hundred Movies on Just One Disk

Is Nuclear Energy Our Best Hope?

It's a Bird! It's a Plane! Now It's Just a Plane.

Biofuel Farming Looks to Be an Environmental Disaster

The Great Forgotten Clean-Energy Source: Geothermal

Space

The Space Race For the New Millennium

Space Travel For Every Budget

Mercury's Secrets Revealed

Mission to the Forgotten Planets

Rearranging Stars to Communicate with Aliens

Human Origins

Getting Drunk on Chocolate in 1100 B.C.

From Haitian Zombie Poison to Inuit Knives Made of Feces

The Extinct Human Species That Was Smarter Than Us

The Most Famous Ghost Town in America

Has Science Found a Way to End All Wars?

Living World

On Frans de Waal's Coffee Table

Want to Help the Environment? Eat Insects.

Snakes, Science, and Survival in the Congo

What Is This? A Toy Set for a Microscopic Child?

Recall of the Wild

Environment

Want to Help the Environment? Eat Insects.

Snakes, Science, and Survival in the Congo

Who Let the Dogs Out (Into the Eco-Movement)?

What Is This? A Toy Set for a Microscopic Child?

Recall of the Wild

Physics & Math

Three Words That Could Overthrow Physics: “What Is Magnetism?”

Stupid Science Word of the Month: Unparticle

Has the Einstein Revolution Gone Too Far?

Is That a Gun in Your Pocket or Are You a Size 2?

Albert Einstein, Rock Star

Recent Science News

The Wonderful World of E. Coli

Carl Zimmer looks inside the dangers—and wonders—of one remarkable bacterium. 05.09.2008

One Hundred Movies on Just One Disk

Holographic digital storage will let consumers store a DVD library on a single disk. 05.08.2008

Want to Help the Environment? Eat Insects.

A group of experts endorse bugs as a nutritious and sustainable food source. 05.07.2008

Who Let the Dogs Out (Into the Eco-Movement)?

New self-sustaining dog houses are perfect for the eco-conscious pooch owner. 05.06.2008

Why Bogart's Kiss Is Your Kiss, His Soda Your Soda

Mirror neurons help explain how we connect to each others' emotions. 05.05.2008

A Dead Man's Eyes Hold the Key to His Age

Proteins in the eye offer a new means of identifying corpses. 05.02.2008

What Happens When an Ovary Dies?

An unusual condition pulls a woman in the ER—and doctors into a guessing game. 05.01.2008

The Sexual Frustration of Rats in Polyester Pants

Mary Roach explores fornication around the animal kingdom in her book Bonk. 04.29.2008