| | Freedom From Fungus: Why Don’t Humans Have Chestnut-Style Blights and ... Sarah Zhang is Discover’s web intern. See her blogging May 16, 2012 12:59 PM |
| | Paranormal Circumstances: One Influential Scientist's Quixotic Mission to Prove ESP Exists From his research to his personal life, Daryl Bem's never been one to follow the crowd. May 14, 2012 |
| | The Hagfish's Special Trick for Warding Off Predators: Thick, Sticky Mucus A shark can't eat you if it's gagging on slime. May 10, 2012 |
| | A Sweet View of the Icarus of Comets Comet C/2011 N3, a 160-foot-wide ball of rock and ice, was brutally incinerated by the sun’s atmosphere. But it was quite a sight. May 10, 2012 |
| | How I Contained the Mississippi A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers commander makes the tough, smart decisions necessary to save cities and lives. May 04, 2012 |
| | 20 Things You Didn't Know About... The geniuses who fudged data, the cheaters who did it in plain sight, and the frauds who got away with it |
| | Hidden Epidemic: Tapeworms Living Inside People's Brains Parasitic worms leave millions of victims paralyzed, epileptic, or worse. So why isn’t anyone mobilizing to eradicate them? |
| | "We Can Take His Heart Out, Remove the Tumor, and Put It Back In" A patient’s heart tumor is all but inaccessible to his surgeons. The only way to deal with it: Remove the heart and operate on it outside the body. |
| | The World's Most Celebrated Virus Hunter: Ian Lipkin The Columbia University researcher describes his quest for HIV in San Francisco and SARS in China, the immune cascades that may cause autism, and the infectious roots of psychiatric disease. |
| | Physicists Carve a Niche in Time Six years ago, physicists hid an object behind an invisibility cloak for the first time. Now they're cloaking actual events. |