May | DISCOVER Magazine

Science News

Quantum dots can change the very properties of matter by controlling electrons. 10.09.2008

The Nobel Prizes will soon be announced. How do the winners get so damn smart? 10.01.2008

Melding humans and machines to help the paralyzed walk, the mute speak, and the near-dead return to life 09.26.2008

How researchers can make meat that's better for you—and better for animals. 09.22.2008

It's like pitching a cotton ball at major-league speeds: up to 600 feet per second. 09.18.2008

Albert Rizzo uses virtual reality to free veterans of their PTSD—by letting them relive their trauma. 09.17.2008

Doctors and drug companies are working hard to help seniors get it on like teenagers. 09.15.2008

By manipulating your head just so, a doctor can sometimes cure chronic dizziness. 09.10.2008

The Truth About Invasive Species

How to stop worrying and learn to love ecological intruders

by Alan Burdick

Arizona's Pima Indians have the world's highest rate of diabetes, and the rest of the world is catching up fast. Can geneticists figure out why?

Top scientists pinpoint the critical developments of the last 25 years and predict wonders yet to come

Watching sea urchins defy our knowledge of chemistry and physics

Can common nutrients curb violent tendencies and dispel clinical depression?

Temple Grandin says animals think like autistic humans. She should know

Seven thousand feet above Arizona's saguaro forests, a unique gathering of observatories probe the universe's darkest secrets

by Scott Kim

Scientists celebrate a strange universe in which space can bend and time can stop
by Bob Berman

End-of-term complications in a difficult pregnancy almost kill a mother
by Steward Massad

Scientists have doubled the payload of today's popcorn—at the expense of taste
by Joshua Foer

If only publishers would let us cut, paste, forward, and even change their words
by Steven Johnson [stevenberlinjohnson.com]

Human cultural groups have behaved as if they were different species
by Kathy A. Svitil