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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.

FEATURES

by Robert Kunzig

A long-lost cache of surprisingly well-preserved vessels promises a rare look at everyday life in ancient Rome

Shrinking the Surgeon

by Gurney Williams

In the operating room of the future, physicians will use tiny high-tech tools to travel inside the body with dexterity and precision beyond imagining. The future is now

Sideways Rockets

by Jack McClintock

What if the shuttle took off more like a jet on an aircraft carrier?

How Old Is Too Old to Have a Baby?

by Judith Newman, Noah Greenberg

Fertility technology is advancing at such an astonishing pace that couples who fail to have children in their forties could realistically wait until their sixties to try again?

The Deadliest Carnivore

by Vicki Croke, Roy Toft

Half mongoose, half clouded leopard, Madagascar's fossa is rarely seen and barely understood yet essential to the natural balance of this threatened Eden

Wired for Emotion

by Jeff Sciortino, Jim Robbins

Now that we're getting closer to a root cause of depression (psst--it may come from your left prefrontal cortex), can we figure out how to fix it?

DEPARTMENTS

Humans seem to distinguish between having sex and creating a pair-bond, although for each we use the word mate

by Michael Pranzatelli

Parents learn that it doesn't take much to start a biological storm in a toddler's brain

DATA

Gene-ius Computer

by Fenella Saunders

Earth in the Balance

by Jessica Gorman

Battle Fatigues

In the Beginning, All Was Blackness

Checking on Millenium Predictions

by Martha J. Heil

Discover Dialogue

Works in Progress

by Karen Wright

The most reviled drug in history proves a potent weapon against disease

by Brad Lemley

Hybrid cars are electric efficient, gasoline convenient, and the biggest auto innovation in a century

by Eric Haseltine

Traffic with the Weather

Dinosaur on the Grow

Folk Forecasting

Cutting Back on Chemotherapy

The Physics of. . . Insect Flight

by Robert Kunzig

Insects have long been the best fliers around, but no one knew what kept them in the air--until now

by Fenella Saunders

by Scott Kim

by Bob Berman

In space, what can go wrong will go wrong, which adds considerably to the adventure

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