Discover Magazine
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Prosthetic Legs Aren’t Better Than the Real Thing… Yet
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Sorry, Australian iPhone Users: You’ve Been Rickrolled
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Are There Pesticides in Your Soup? Dunk a Pollution Dipstick to Find Out.
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Ripped From the Journals: The Biggest Discoveries of the Week
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Mother Tongue, Indeed: Newborn’s Cries Mimic Mama’s Accent
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Can Your Pet Catch & Spread Swine Flu? Yes, If Your Pet’s a Ferret
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Neutered HIV Virus Delivers Treatment to Fatally Ill Boys
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Toddler Gets a Telescoping, Prosthetic Arm Bone That Grows With Him
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A Baby Neutron Star, Swaddled in a Carbon Atmosphere
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Laser-Powered Robot Climbs to Victory in the Space-Elevator Contest
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Speaking of Sagan… BABlogee Rob Rollins sent me this link to a great ... November 09, 2009 02:00 PM |
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Is The Enemy: Richmond, California (CNN) — Investigators say as many ... November 09, 2009 01:55 PM |
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What Head (and Other) Lice Tell Us About Evolution The second episode of NOVA’s big evolution special “Becoming ... November 09, 2009 12:51 PM |
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A Literally Crappy House Protects Beetle Larva From Predators Leaf beetle mothers give their children an inheritance that many people ... November 09, 2009 11:59 AM |
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Supermodel microbes? You bet. Check out this gallery of lovely, sometimes ... November 09, 2009 10:50 AM |
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Brain-Like Chip May Solve Computers' Big Problem: Energy The future of computing may depend on embracing the chaos that defines human thinking. November 06, 2009 |
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Science Nation Video: Secrets of Slithering Snakes
November 05, 2009 |
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Will Our Universe Collide With a Neighboring One? Our universe may be one of a multitude—and it may bear the scars of past run-ins with its neighbors. November 04, 2009 |
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The Sea Change That's Challenging Biology's Central Dogma For decades, RNA was seen as a simple slave to DNA. Newer research shows it has an active and critical role in every disease from Alzheimer's to cancer. November 03, 2009 |
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Science Nation Video: Geomagic: Expanding Tools for a 3-D World
October 29, 2009 |
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20 Things You Didn't Know About... We eat it, we love it, and it may have been a chemical precursor to life on Earth. |
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Where Does Sex Live in the Brain? From Top to Bottom. Neuroscientists explore the mind's sexual side and discover that desire is not quite what we thought it was. |
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A tune-up for one of the most sophisticated imaging devices ever made |
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The 3-D Simulation that Lets Your Surgeon Practice...on You A new technology lets doctors test out procedures on a simulation of the patient's anatomy. |
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The Sneaky Pain That Fooled 6 Experts A sore hip launches a patient on an odyssey through the world of medical care before giving way to a surprisingly simple conclusion. |
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Hint: It's actually not on the ground, nor in the oceans, but up in the sky—way up in the sky. |
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Thanks, Evolution, For Making the Great Building Material Called DNA Electronic computers are great at what they do. But to accomplish really complicated physical tasks—like building an insect—Erik Winfree says you have to grow them from DNA. |
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The Best Gadgets to Buy This Month Devices that are smart, green, portable, and super tough |
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The Easiest Way to Fight Global Warming? Simply cleaning up soot could work wonders for the climate. |
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Five Questions: Turning Microbes Into Micro Refineries Synthetic biologist Reshma Shetty predicts that we will eventually engineer organisms to grow everything that we manufacture today. |
