February 2006

Cooking For Eggheads

Great cuisine is more than art; it's science. The French can now prove it.

by Patricia Gadsby, Photography by Alexandra Boulat

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February

Departments

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The Anatomy of a Sunspot
by Jessa Forte Netting

Vital Signs: Why Is Her Vision Hazy?

The warning signs become more ominous as a patient's symptoms come and go
by Richard Fleming

Sky Lights

Nature's weirdest stars turn magnetism into radiation, unleashing as much energy in the blink of an eye as the sun does in 250,000 years
by Bob Berman

The Physics of Swimming

Can these sleek mammals of the sea really defy the rules of hydrodynamics?
by Karen C. Fox

Letters

Readers write back.

Letter From Discover

Emerging Technology

Hey, Steve Jobs: How about a machine that knows some verbs?
by Steven Berlin Johnson

Discover Dialogue: Mathematician Peter Woit

No one has a plausible idea about how string theory can explain anything'
by Susan Kruglinski

Contributors

Bogglers Solutions

by Scott Kim

Bogglers

Paleo Puzzles
by Scott Kim