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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.

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Blown Away
by Karen Wright
Worldwide deforestation, mining, overgrazing, and the diversion of water have combined to create huge dust clouds that carry bacteria, viruses, soot, acids, radioactive isotopes, and pesticides from Asia and Africa to the United States
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The Feynman File
by Michelle Feynman
His daughter's archive offers a wormhole into the secret life of a charismatic physicist
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Human, Study Thyself
by Jeff Wheelwright
Race has been a surrogate for biology. We don't have that luxury anymore
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Our Preferred Poison
by Karen Wright
A little mercury is all that humans need to do away with themselves quietly, slowly, and surely
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Drilling San Andreas
by Brad Lemley
Despite decades of study, why earthquakes happen and when they do remains one of the great mysteries of science. A two-mile-deep tunnel boring into America's most infamous fault may soon change that
Think Tank
Great scientists discuss the breakthroughs of the last quarter century—and the next
A Naturalist's Paradise
In a wonderland called Madagascar, a modern-day Darwin discovers hundreds of new species

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Vital Signs
Vital Signs
by Tony Dajer
Over-the-counter drugs can be risky

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