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Appeal of the Rare

by Robert Sapolsky, Paul Ehrlich, James Wojcik

Discover Awards

The 14th Annual Discover Magazine Awards for Innovation in Space Science and Technology

by Karen Wright, Mary Ellen Mark

A century ago, most Americans lived to be about 50. Today people over 100 make up the fastest-growing segment of the population. As some researchers bet that children born today will live to be 150, others say there is no upward limit on longevity

The Secret Life of Ants

by Brent Humphreys, Jack McClintock

A myrmecologist captures the delicate subterranean mansions of the insect world's master architects

by Lisa Margonelli, Matthew Spiegelman

Should we torch oil spills off Alaska with napalm?

Space Explorer: Franklin Chang-Díaz

by Joesph D'Agnese

The Boy NASA Couldn't Keep On Earth

Aerospace: Ed Weiler

by Eric Levin

The Hubble Telescope's Best Friend

Technology for Humanity: Robert Fischell

by Eric Neel

The Inventor Who Saved 65,000 Lives

Communications: Harold Rosen

by Jack McClintock

The Seer of Geostationary Satellites

Space Scientist: Geoff Marcy and Paul Butler

by Joseph D'Agnese

The Astronomers Who Proved Carl Sagan Correct

by Robert Kunzig

New images from Hubble preview the death of our sun: swift, colorful, and surprisingly tempestuous

DEPARTMENTS

by Claire Panosian Dunavan

A child's disease rears up against adults as their vaccinations wear thin

DATA

by Bob Berman

The sky turns cloudy this month. But even on overcast days, there is still plenty of spectacle to see up above

On Mars, NASA Seems to Be Brilliant

by Corey S. Powell, Zara Herskovits

On Mars, NASA Seems to Be Brilliant

Discover Dialogue: Ann Druyan

by Kathy A. Svitil

If only an elite minority of Americans understands science and technology, there is no hope of democracy

Red Planet Calling: We Have Data

by Patrick Chisholm

Science Proves that City Life Really is Electrifying

by Kathy A. Svitil

Colorizing the Lost World

by Kathy A. Svitil

The Language Genome Project

by Kathy A. Svitil

You Are What Your Mother Ate

by Jocelyn Selim

Bogglers Solution

by Scott Kim

Artistic Neurons

by Fenella Saunders

Ask Discover

Emerging Technology

by Steven Johnson

A new headline service lets the readers collectively decide what's important

by Eric Haseltine

Everything you need to know about the sky in 2003

The Physics of ... Wrinkles

by Robert Kunzig

A general theory of wrinkling puts your face in touch with the universe

Bullets Out, None In

by Jocelyn Selim

Nod Yourself to Certainty

by Jack Lucentini

Pumped Up on Prozac

by Alison McCook

Mapping DNA's Danger Zones

by Jocelyn Selim

by Scott Kim

What to do with Google when you're bored

How to Walk on Water

by Fenella Saunders

Where in the H is the H in H2O?

by Fenella Saunders

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