Hands-On at the Nation's Largest Robot Skunk Works
05.08.2008 New bots will explore everything from Mars to your mouth—and perform surgery.
Movie Camera to the Stars
The Earth's fastest telescope aims to make the best sky map ever created. 05.13.2008
One Hundred Movies on Just One Disk
Holographic digital storage will let consumers store a DVD library on a single disk. 05.08.2008
A Dead Man's Eyes Hold the Key to His Age
Proteins in the eye offer a new means of identifying corpses. 05.02.2008
Is Nuclear Energy Our Best Hope?
Even the creator of the holistic Gaia hypothesis has come around. 04.25.2008
It's a Bird! It's a Plane! Now It's Just a Plane.
Despite efforts to avoid them, birds still do billions of dollars of damage to aircraft. 04.18.2008
Biofuel Farming Looks to Be an Environmental Disaster
Growing corn for ethanol may increase greenhouse gases for over a century. 04.03.2008
The Great Forgotten Clean-Energy Source: Geothermal
The U.S. uses less than 1 percent of our available geothermal energy. 04.03.2008
Viennese Orchestra Uses Instruments Made of Produce
Carrot recorders, pumpkin harps, leek violins, cucumberphones... 04.02.2008
What Is This? An Extra from Yellow Submarine?
The "devil's darning needle" hunts by sight. 04.02.2008
A Science Fair for a Better Planet
A contest to show DISCOVER—and the rest of the humans—how to help Mother Earth. 04.01.2008
Is That a Gun in Your Pocket or Are You a Size 2?
Radar peers beneath clothes to find weapons—and the perfect pair of jeans. 03.31.2008
Chain Reaction: From Einstein to the Atomic Bomb
He begat the project but was then shut out for being a perceived security risk. 03.18.2008
Mighty Electric Fields Found Inside Cells
15 million volts per meter? Ay, carumba. 03.14.2008
Has Science Found a Way to End All Wars?
Given adequate food, fuel, and gender equality, mass conflict just might disappear. 03.13.2008
The Vocal Joystick
Using a carefully controlled hum, paralyzed people can control a mouse or robot arm. 03.12.2008
The Incredibly Strong See-Through Bicycle
Want a lighter bike? Poke holes in it—the more the better. 03.06.2008
The Sim That Saves People from Each Other
Preventing disaster in an unruly world. 03.03.2008
The Robo-Sub That Helps Predict Where the Ocean's Headed
An underwater glider measures parts of the ocean that scientists can't reach. 03.03.2008
What Is This? A Field of Micro-Volcanoes?
These growths may look like little volcanoes, but they are are nothing of the sort. 03.02.2008
The Key to Safe and Effective Carbon Sequestration
Some rock acts as a natural stopper to buried carbon dioxide. 02.29.2008
