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Discover

January/February 2020
Magazine

Discover Magazine will amaze you, enlighten you, and open your eyes to the awe and wonder of science and technology. Discover reveals secrets, solves mysteries, and debunks old myths. Discover shares new findings and shows you what makes our universe tick.

Your Curiosity Fix

Discover

1 Humanity’s First Look at a Black Hole

2 Gene Therapy Gets Clinical

3 Race for the Moon • From crash landings to out-of-this-world cotton, 2019 was a big year for lunar exploration. Previously, only the U.S., Russia and China had managed to land successfully on the moon. But now other national space agencies are charging ahead with their own science goals, and private companies of all sizes are finding ways to join in. Not to be left out, NASA is renewing its own plans for lunar exploration. The result has been a year of lunar successes and failures — and lots of big talk — with final outcomes still very much up in the air.

4 A Million Species in Danger

5 Decoding the Denisovans

6 The CBD Cure-All?

7 Mini-Brains Make New Waves

8 Exploring the Farthest World Yet

9 Researchers React to Human Genes in Monkeys

10 A Melting Planet

11 The First Gene-Edited Babies Turn 1

12 The Bumpy Road to Launching a Dragon

13 Brains Brought Back to Life

14 Remembering the Opportunity Rover • After some 15 prolific years on the martian surface, NASA’s Opportunity rover has gone silent. It took a whopping planet-wide dust storm to fell the solar-powered robot, but, in February, the space agency officially ended the mission. We talked with NASA scientists about their experiences working on the golf-cart-sized rover and what Opportunity meant to them. Their eulogies for the lost rover, originally intended to last just three months on Mars, are below.

15 Mind-Controlled Rats Are Now a Thing

16 The Rules of the Road to Quantum Supremacy

17 New Member of Our Family Tree Found in Philippines

18 Editing Out HIV

19 Lots o’ Motza!

20 Most Massive T. Rex Ever Died Old and Battle-Worn

21 Talking to a Twin Traveler

22 Volcano Early Warning System Rumbles to Life

23 Skull Is Oldest Human Fossil Outside Africa

24 InSight’s Frustrating First Year on Mars

25 A Quantum Jump Caught in Slo-Mo

26 New Form of Dementia Strikes the ‘Oldest Old’

27 Measles Returns

28 Circuit Sensitivity Is All in the (Mathematical) Family

29 Our Universe’s Forgotten First Molecule

30 Navigating the Murky Waters of DNA Testing

31 A Paradigm Shift for Depression Treatment

32 A Bee Plus in Math

33 A Microscope That Sees DNA

34 Unearthing Quakes

35 Genes Bring Clarity to Anorexia

36 Unique Ancient Bird Preserved in Amber

36 The Mystery of Mars’ Raging Rivers

38 Reading Minds, Aloud

39 An Old Tooth and a New View of Evolution

40 Elon Musk Wants to Read Your Mind

41 Long Live the Kilogram

42 A New Tool Turns Up Surprise Slash Across Saturn’s Largest Moon

43 Rain, Rain, Here to Stay?

44 Oldest Fossil Fungi Hints at Early ‘Modern’ Life

45 EEGs Eke Out Buried Brain Activity

46 Early Start for Our First Continents

47 Smells Like Sargassum

48 Abra-Cadaver! Blood Vessels Come to Life

49 A Museum’s Monster Find

50 Rock-Eating Shipworm Shocker

Images of the Year • In 2019, more than a black hole caught our eye.

New Species


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Science

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English

Discover Magazine will amaze you, enlighten you, and open your eyes to the awe and wonder of science and technology. Discover reveals secrets, solves mysteries, and debunks old myths. Discover shares new findings and shows you what makes our universe tick.

Your Curiosity Fix

Discover

1 Humanity’s First Look at a Black Hole

2 Gene Therapy Gets Clinical

3 Race for the Moon • From crash landings to out-of-this-world cotton, 2019 was a big year for lunar exploration. Previously, only the U.S., Russia and China had managed to land successfully on the moon. But now other national space agencies are charging ahead with their own science goals, and private companies of all sizes are finding ways to join in. Not to be left out, NASA is renewing its own plans for lunar exploration. The result has been a year of lunar successes and failures — and lots of big talk — with final outcomes still very much up in the air.

4 A Million Species in Danger

5 Decoding the Denisovans

6 The CBD Cure-All?

7 Mini-Brains Make New Waves

8 Exploring the Farthest World Yet

9 Researchers React to Human Genes in Monkeys

10 A Melting Planet

11 The First Gene-Edited Babies Turn 1

12 The Bumpy Road to Launching a Dragon

13 Brains Brought Back to Life

14 Remembering the Opportunity Rover • After some 15 prolific years on the martian surface, NASA’s Opportunity rover has gone silent. It took a whopping planet-wide dust storm to fell the solar-powered robot, but, in February, the space agency officially ended the mission. We talked with NASA scientists about their experiences working on the golf-cart-sized rover and what Opportunity meant to them. Their eulogies for the lost rover, originally intended to last just three months on Mars, are below.

15 Mind-Controlled Rats Are Now a Thing

16 The Rules of the Road to Quantum Supremacy

17 New Member of Our Family Tree Found in Philippines

18 Editing Out HIV

19 Lots o’ Motza!

20 Most Massive T. Rex Ever Died Old and Battle-Worn

21 Talking to a Twin Traveler

22 Volcano Early Warning System Rumbles to Life

23 Skull Is Oldest Human Fossil Outside Africa

24 InSight’s Frustrating First Year on Mars

25 A Quantum Jump Caught in Slo-Mo

26 New Form of Dementia Strikes the ‘Oldest Old’

27 Measles Returns

28 Circuit Sensitivity Is All in the (Mathematical) Family

29 Our Universe’s Forgotten First Molecule

30 Navigating the Murky Waters of DNA Testing

31 A Paradigm Shift for Depression Treatment

32 A Bee Plus in Math

33 A Microscope That Sees DNA

34 Unearthing Quakes

35 Genes Bring Clarity to Anorexia

36 Unique Ancient Bird Preserved in Amber

36 The Mystery of Mars’ Raging Rivers

38 Reading Minds, Aloud

39 An Old Tooth and a New View of Evolution

40 Elon Musk Wants to Read Your Mind

41 Long Live the Kilogram

42 A New Tool Turns Up Surprise Slash Across Saturn’s Largest Moon

43 Rain, Rain, Here to Stay?

44 Oldest Fossil Fungi Hints at Early ‘Modern’ Life

45 EEGs Eke Out Buried Brain Activity

46 Early Start for Our First Continents

47 Smells Like Sargassum

48 Abra-Cadaver! Blood Vessels Come to Life

49 A Museum’s Monster Find

50 Rock-Eating Shipworm Shocker

Images of the Year • In 2019, more than a black hole caught our eye.

New Species


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