Category: Science

It’s no secret that a new Space Race has been brewing over the past few years. This time, rather than being a competition between two…

Giant, carnivorous centipedes on a South Pacific island can kill and eat up to 3,700 seabird chicks every year, a new study has revealed.  Phillip Island centipedes…

‘Green steel’ might sound like an oxymoron, but it’s a phrase you’re bound to be hearing a lot more of in the next few years….

This article appeared in the September/October 2021 issue of Discover magazine as “Frontline Fatigue.” Become a subscriber for unlimited access to our archive. In February 1945, U.S. Navy nurse…

Can you remember what you had for dinner last weekend? That ability is a function of episodic memory, and how well we can recall the…

Graph theory isn’t enough. The mathematical language for talking about connections, which usually depends on networks—vertices (dots) and edges (lines connecting them)—has been an invaluable…

Few geological mysteries are as perplexing as the ‘Great Unconformity‘ riddle at the Grand Canyon: More than a billion years of missing rock layers that…

The possibility of time travel has excited many of us for hundreds of years, inspiring countless books and films. The ability to move not only…

Ever since humans first started refining metals – roughly 5,000 years ago – people have been unknowingly breathing, ingesting, and absorbing tiny particles of lead…

There’s something strange about the near-Earth asteroid 3200 Phaethon: It brightens up as it approaches the Sun, despite not having any reserves of ice that…