April 2004

Mission to Mercury

If landing on Mars looks tricky, imagine what NASA faces trying to slingshot Messenger to the planet closest to the sun

by Fred Guterl

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April

Departments

Bogglers Solutions

Observer

by Paul Schreiber, Photography by Jonathan Kantor

Bogglers

Connecting the dots
by Scott Kim

Reviews

Sky Lights

Venus—so strange, yet so like our home planet—takes its turn in the spotlight
by Bob Berman

The Biology of . . . Flowers

Colors in the flower shop of the future may have little to do with nature
by Susan Freinkel

Vital Signs

Will a young mother bleed to death after giving birth?
by Stewart Massad

Emerging Technology

How computer animators illuminate the evanescent complexity of the natural world
by Steven Johnson

Discover Dialogue: Sydney Brenner

The problem of biology is not to stand aghast at the complexity but to conquer it’
by David Ewing Duncan

Letters

Contributors

Letter From Discover