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Science News

Nothingness of Space Could Illuminate the Theory of Everything

Could the vacuum contain dark energy, gravity particles, and frictionless gears? 07.18.2008

Smacking Down Stephen Hawking

Leonard Susskind's new book gets personal. 07.17.2008

Ocean Acidification: A Global Case of Osteoporosis

Industrial carbon dioxide is turning the oceans acidic, threatening the foundation of sea life. 07.16.2008

Female Starlings Duped into Mating with Duds

Environmental pollutants lead lesser males to sing louder and attract more mates. 07.10.2008

Honeybee Killer Still at Large

"Colony collapse disorder" confounds scientists, beekeepers, and ice cream companies. 07.01.2008

Does Your House Have Robotic Vision (Yet)?

Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary ideas go on public display. 07.01.2008

What Flattened a Siberian Forest in 1908?

A century after the mysterious Tunguska Event, questions remain. 06.30.2008

5 Next-Gen Antibiotics That Could Save Your Life

Powerful peptides from alligator blood; synthetic peptoids from the lab. 06.30.2008

July 1999

To Hell and Back

In the hot, radioactive world miles below us, microbe hunters encounter bizarre bugs that eat and breathe geologic ingredients like iron, manganese, and sulfur and, gasp, maybe our ancestors

by Kevin Krajick, Photographs by Louise Gubbs/Saba

Looking Back at the Future:

Ten Years of Discover Awards

One-Minute Cholesterol Test

The Smallest Switch

Energy Drain Plug

If Appliances Could Talk

Video on a Chip

Disposable Chips

New Light on 1

Mind Over Time

Now that we've finally figured out where our biological clocks are located, can we learn to control them?

Far Beyond Saturn

The remarkable journey of Voyager 2, the only probe to see the outer reaches of our solar system

The Last Big Bang Man

Once upon a time, a physicist figured out how the universe began.Then everybody forgot about him.

Mind Over Time

Now that we've finally figured out where our biological clocks are located, can we learn to control them?

Data

Lethal Snoring

The Satellite That Eats Itself

What's New, Robocat?

The Dead Wives Club

Oh My Aching Meninges

Cancer Warning Light

Frogs Legs Up

The Supreme Ugliness

Interview: Arthur C. Clarke

It's Not Easy Being Green

Men Are Cheaters

A Vaccine Worth Taking

Liar, Liar, Face on Fire

Departments

Check out your reflexes to check out your overall health
by Eric Haseltine

More than fireworks will light July's skies for nights to come
by Bob Berman

Mr. Ervin didn't know what hit him, and neither did his doctor
by Daniel C. Weaver

WINNER MIT's MicroplasmatronInnovator: Daniel Cohn

WINNER Caltech and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory for Ion PropulsionInnovator: John StockyRevolutionary Rocket

WINNER Neural Signals and Emory University's Neurotrophic Implant forCommunicationInnovator: Philip Kennedy

Ten Years of Discover Awards
by Mark Wheeler

Welcome to the Tenth Annual Discover Magazine Awards for Technological Innovation Presented by the Christopher Columbus Foundation

Check out your reflexes to check out your overall health
by Eric Haseltine

How to begin understanding the way a trout sees the world
by Scott Kim

Mr. Ervin didn't know what hit him, and neither did his doctor
by Daniel C. Weaver

Right on the mark. That was a letter-perfect example of condescending sexism.'
by Jeffrey Winters