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Discover Magazine's mission is to enable readers to lead richer lives by explaining and expanding their universe.  Each month we bring you in depth information and analysis from various topics ranging from technology and space to the living world we live in.

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The Curse of QWERTY
by Jared Diamond
O typewriter? Quit your torture!
Brave New Egg
by John Travis
We may soon be able to grow unlimited numbers of perfectly healthy, fertilizable human eggs in the laboratory. Whether we should, of course, is an entirely different question.
On the Origin of (Amazonian) Species
by Virginia Morell
How did the Amazon achieve its stunning diversity? Some say great rivers are responsible, others point to vanished hills and seas. Now one team of zoologists is listening to what the rats have to say.
The Buttefly Solution
by David H. Freedman
Everywhere Ioannis Miaoulis looks, he sees life's answers to technology's problems--they're in the innocent beat of a butterfly's wing, in the gentle undulation of a sea anemone.

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Men Who Dive with Sturgeons
by Mark Wheeler
Emergency Deliveries
by Pamela Grim
The Lion in Spring
by Bob Berman
In April Leo leaps above the eastern horizon at nightfall.
The Once and Future Dust Bowl
What a Croc
See That Black Hole?
By swallowing huge amounts of energy, a black hole betrays it's whereabouts.
Primordial Pest
Older, not Better
Fear and Loathing in Bochum
Virtual Gorillas
by Kathy A. Svitil
Raising the Rockies
by Rachel Preiser
Tiny Tubes
Neanderthal Musical Instruments Included Tusk-Tuba, Bladder-Bagpipe, and "Xylobone"
by Tim Folger
The Neander Valley was, apparently, alive with the sound of music.
Hot Times on Io
Priestly Genes
Digging into DNA confirms the oral tradition of an ancient priestly lineage.
Pillars at the Bottom of the Sea
Bacterial Cement
Limestone-building bacteria could mend cracks in concrete.
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