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Discoblog

Weekly News Roundup: A Klingon Dad, Russian Space Bloggers, & Black Market ...

• Gardak! To learn about children and language, Dad speaks to son only in ...

Bad Astronomy

Sirius Stargazing

I have few regrets in life, but if there’s one, it’s that I ...

Discoblog

Answered: All Your Nagging Questions About Testicle Location

As you’ve probably heard, a man’s testicles hang down because ...

Bad Astronomy

NASA wants your junk

While driving in Los Angeles recently, I was surprised to see this out my ...

Cosmic Variance

Beam Circulating in LHC Again!

09:37 PST: Like many of my colleagues, I’ve been eagerly awaiting ...

Articles

Monkey See, Monkey Do, Monkey Connect

The most profound bonds between people begin in our bodies with imitation and synchronized movements.

A Tumultuous Year at the LHC

Physicist Lisa Randall describes the turbulent first year after the collider's premature celebration.

The Calculating Beauty of Butterflies

How butterflies' colorful wing patterns help them hide, lie, and impress the ladies.

Departments

20 Things You Didn't Know About...

Sugar

We eat it, we love it, and it may have been a chemical precursor to life on Earth.

The Brain

Humanity's Other Basic Instinct: Math

New research suggests that math has evolved its way right into our neurons—and monkeys', too.

Visual Science

Polishing a Cosmic Spyglass

A tune-up for one of the most sophisticated imaging devices ever made

Future Tech

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.

Vital Signs

The Sneaky Pain That Fooled 6 Experts

A sore hip launches a patient on an odyssey through the world of medical care before giving way to a surprisingly simple conclusion.

What Is This?

A Bioluminescent Mushroom?

Hint: It's actually not on the ground, nor in the oceans, but up in the sky—way up in the sky.

Discover Interview

Thanks, Evolution, For Making the Great Building Material Called DNA

Electronic computers are great at what they do. But to accomplish really complicated physical tasks—like building an insect—Erik Winfree says you have to grow them from DNA.

Big Picture

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.

5 Questions

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.

The Road to The New Energy Economy
 








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