July | DISCOVER Magazine

The Serotonin Surprise

"I think you have to accept that there's a structural change in your brain when you take drugs like Prozac."

by Gary Greenberg

Victim of Geology

Whatever you do, don't get started on fossils

Winner - $100,000 Christopher Columbus Foundation Award

Richard Craig, PhD; Staff Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Richland, Washington

Winner - Transportation

Eric Olofsson; Combustion and Gas Exchange Manager, Saab Automotive AB; Södertälje, Sweden

Winner - Health

Robert Wind, PhD; Staff Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Richland, Washington

Winner - Environment

Patrick Gruber, PhD; Vice President & Chief 4 Officer, Cargill Dow LLC; Minnetonka, Minnesota

Winner - Entertainment

Mark Billinghurst; Research Associate, Human Interface 4 Laboratory, University of Washington; Seattle, Washington

Winner - Electronics

Joseph M. Jacobson, PhD; Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab; Cambridge, Massachusetts

Winner - Editor's Choice

Laurence M. Corash, M.D.; Co-founder & Chief Medical Officer, Cerus Corporation; Concord, California

Winner - Communications

Aharon Agranat, PhD; Founder & Director, Trellis Photonics; Columbia, Maryland

Winner - Aerospace

Robert Winglee, PhD; Associate Chair, Department of Earth & Space Sciences, University of Washington

Communications: Aharon Agranat

Discover Magazine Innovation Awards

Entertainment: Mark Billinghurst

Discover Magazine Innovation Awards

Electronics: Joseph M. Jacobson

Discover Magazine Innovation Awards

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REVOLUTIONARY NEW LANDMINE DETECTOR RECEIVES $100,000 CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS FOUNDATION AWARD

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DISCOVER MAGAZINE ANNOUNCES ITS 2001 INNOVATION AWARDSHONORING SCIENTIFIC INVENTIONS THAT WILL CHANGE OUR LIVES

Discover Awards

The 12th Annual Discover Magazine Awards for Innovation in 2 Science and 4

Tuxedo Junction

Half a million penguins pull up to this bleak shore in Patagonia every year, after one of the most astonishing migrations in all of nature. One woman is trying to keep it that way.

That guy to the right of this headline is Dr. Sid, star of a major motion picture to be released this month. He's not real. No actor played his part. Which is all well and good until you realize that the people who made him could make a copy of you next

Brothers with Heart

Four brothers, close since childhood, are collaborating on the development of organs made from a patient's own tissue. before long, custom-grown body parts may replace transplants

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