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May

Table of Contents May 1998

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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Tempting Fates

by Robin Marantz Henig

If you could dictate the content of your kid's genes, wouldn't you? Shouldn't you?

Night Watchman: Cosmic Clutter

by Bob Berman

We've put thousands of objects intoorbit. Many are visible—but only now.

A Clone of One's Own

by Virginia Morell

First sheep, then cows, soon monkeys: It's only a matter of time until the first human clone is cooing in its—uh, mother's?—arms.

Saviors

by Robert Pool

Someday the transplant you need may be growing on the hoof—or in a lab.

Ontogeny Recapitulated

by Gary Taubes

Biologists are learning how to turn on the genes that make our cells young. With them, we might repair our bones. Replenish our blood. Replace our limbs. And maybe some brain cells too.

Human in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

by Karen Wright

Fertility clinics have been called the Wild West of medicine—an unregulated world where a dead man can impregnate a stranger and where a child can have five parents.

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Baby

by Sarah Richardson

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Baby

The Code Breaker

by James Shreeve

Instead of patiently unraveling life's secrets gene by gene, we can now read them at breakneck speed—thanks in great part to an ingenious, admired, despised, once aimless and now wealthy biologist named Craig Venter.

Ocean Watch: Bringing Tube Worms Back Alive

by Kathy A. Svitil

Until James Childress built his unique aquarium, you could find live tube worms only on the ocean floor, at depths of two miles or more.

Physics Watch: Fusion's Future?

by Jeffrey Winters

Will tomorrow's power plants run on a few ounces of hydrogen and boron instead of several hundred tons of coal? Physicist Hendrik Monkhorst is betting on it.

The Great Gene Escape

by Josie Glausiusz

The seed companies say the plants they've created are safe. But who's to know what will come from a romp in the field with an untamed weed?

Archeology Watch:A Natural History of Mummies

by Josie Glausiusz

How did the ancient Egyptians perfect their sophisticated mummification techniques? Before preserving flesh, they may have practiced for centuries on skeletons.