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Longer Transcript of Michael Mann/Point of Inquiry Interview Up at Climate ...

Rick Piltz of Climate Science Watch has taken the time to transcribe what ...

Discoblog

NCBI ROFL: And the March “No s**t, Sherlock” award goes to…

Emotional fluctuations in Bob Dylan’s lyrics measured by the ...

Bad Astronomy

The fifth GLOBE at night is on!

How often do you go outside and look up? I mean really, just look up at ...

Discoblog

Just Like Avatar: Scenes from India, Canada, China, and Hawaii

NEXT> Pandora on Earth If you’re a big Avatar fan, then James ...

Bad Astronomy

Launch Pad 2010 open for, um, launch

Last year, I attended the NASA-sponsored Launch Pad Workshop, a week-long ...

Articles

The Latest Trend in Aircraft: Really, Really Tiny

Microfliers could search for missing people, detect bombs, and perhaps even deliver drugs inside the human body.

How Animals Suck: 9 Creatures That Slurp Creatively

Moths that steal tears while their victim sleeps, bats with tongues that start near their hearts, and more animals with weird techniques for eating and drinking.

How to Build a $1000 Fusion Reactor in Your Basement

Admittedly, the project is a little dangerous—not because of a few little fusion reactions but because of the the very flammable gas and voltages high enough to instantly kill you.

Our 8 Brightest Hopes for Keeping Up With Moore's Law

Scientists are trying out strange technological tricks to make computer chips tinier and more powerful.

How to Become a Backyard Galileo (Minus the Church Trouble)

In the United States, about 250,000 amateurs watch the heavens—and many of them have made significant contributions to science.

Departments

Top 100 Stories of 2009

#1: Vaccine Phobia Becomes a Public-Health Threat

Autism research is progressing quickly, but without a solid diagnosis, some still blame vaccines.

20 Things You Didn't Know About...

Digestion

#15: In which painful condition does your body literally start eating yourself from within?

The Brain

The Primitive, Complicated, Essential Emotion Called Fear

Are you a man or a mouse? No matter how you answer, you experience fear the same way in your brain.

Future Tech

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.

Vital Signs

The Changes of Aging

After 50 years together, it's easy to see changes in your spouse. But what do the changes mean?

What Is This?

A Long, Lost Painting by Joan Miro?

Hints: John Glenn had one on his historic flight. The colors were added to distinguish distance from the camera.

Discover Interview

Space Is Getting Bigger, and It's Getting Bigger Faster

Saul Perlmutter changing our understanding of the entire universe by discovering that its expansion is accelerating.

Big Picture

5 Reasons Science [Hearts] Google

The company that tamed the Web is now helping researchers see the world with fresh eyes.

5 Questions

The Developing World's Disease Fighter

Jose Gomez-Marquez finds new vaccine technologies that work in the lab and in the real world.

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