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September

Table of Contents September 1997

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.

FEATURES

At Home With the Jellies

by Robert Kunzig

The best plan in the open sea is to be gelatinous. Failing that, you should grab onto something that is.

Impossible Planets

by Sam Flamsteed

How do you get one jupiter-size planet into a tight orbit? Start with two, spiraling in toward their sun. Then a close gravitational encounter flings one outward, the other inward. Yeah, that's a good theory, don't you think?

Truth, Beauty, and the Virtual Machine

by David Gelernter

With each passing day our fabulous software creations--our virtual machines--grow more complex, more powerful, and more unwieldy. They will never carry us to a golden future unless we start to craft them with beauty as well as brawn.

The Dream Vaccine

by Mark Caldwell

The world craves an effective, risk-free vaccine against recalcitrant foes like AIDS and malaria. Creating mock infections with tiny rings of bacterial DNA may be the answer.

DATA

The Price of Life

by Pamela Grim

The Third Man

by Matt Cartmill

For over a century the low-browed Homo erectus has sparked scientific fascination about our origins--and not-so-scientific ramblings about the meaning of race.

On the Origin of Darwin's Ills

by Lybi Ma

The Neural Orchestra

by Josie Glausiusz

How the Pufferfish Got Its Puff

by Carl Zimmer

Stone Age Surgery

The Trouble With Trilobites

Occupational Hazards of Monkdom

Ancient Abuse

The Ten Fingers of Dr. H.

by Mark Wheeler