2020-05-13 20:00:00 {widget1} This article appeared in the June 2020 issue of Discover magazine as “Reach for the Sky.” Subscribe for more stories like these. When the empire state building was completed in 1931, the 102-story skyscraper ranked as the tallest in

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2020-05-13 20:00:00 {widget1} If you live in the eastern two-thirds of North America, it may well have felt like global warming has been on vacation lately, with very chilly weather and even freezes and snowfall extending into May in some places. But don’t be fooled: For the

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2020-05-17 17:00:00 {widget1} This story appeared in the June 2020 issue as “Action!” Subscribe to Discover magazine for more stories like this. On April 9, 2017, three security officers from the Chicago Department of Aviation forcibly removed David Dao from an

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2020-05-14 13:00:00 {widget1} This article appeared in the June 2020 issue of Discover magazine as “Downward Spiral.” Subscribe for more stories like these. Tegan, a middle-aged elementary schoolteacher, had become lightheaded and collapsed in front of her

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2020-05-15 13:00:00 {widget1} This article appeared in the June 2020 issue of Discover magazine as “20 Things You Didn’t Know About Horses.” Subscribe for more stories like these. 1. A horse is a horse, of course, of course, as the old Mister Ed theme song

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2020-05-15 14:30:00 {widget1} This story appeared in the June 2020 issue as “Head Cases.” Subscribe to Discover magazine for more stories like this. These are heady times for paleoanthropologists. In the opening decades of the 21st century, new discoveries have

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2020-05-15 16:15:00 {widget1} The Pauli Exclusion Principle is one of the most important and well-studied consequences of quantum mechanics. It states that fermions — particles like electrons — cannot occupy the same quantum state. And it has profound consequences. One of

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2020-05-15 17:00:00 {widget1} This article appeared in the June 2020 issue of Discover magazine as “What We’re Reading.” Subscribe for more stories like these. Nerve: Adventures in the Science of Fear by Eva Holland Confession: I’m terrified of centipedes.

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2020-05-15 18:14:00 {widget1} Before the pandemic, a casual phone call was becoming a thing of the past. Most people didn’t routinely use video chat, either, even though the technology had been around for years. Those intimate modes of conversation were reserved for distant

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2020-05-16 18:00:00 {widget1} Make no mistake: We are running out of elements. As humans have filled in all the corners of the periodic table, each element has resulted in technological innovation. Europium and indium are crucial for televisions and touch screens. Rhenium is

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