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#63: How Many Species Inhabit the Earth?
It's a tough question, but we now have the best answer yet. 12.22.2011
The 100 Top Science Stories of 2010
Every year DISCOVER sorts through the scientific accomplishments of the past 12 months, and assembles a list of the coolest experiments, most brilliant discoveries, and most world-changing events. As you page through the countdown to the #1 science story, we think you'll come to the same conclusion we did: 2010 was quite a year. 12.16.2010
The Lizard That Walks on Air on Water
How the Central American "Jesus lizard" makes its awe-inspiring aquatic dash. 08.12.2010
10 Science Hotspots—Where Mother Nature Reveals Her Secrets
From glaciers to undersea vents to tornado-wracked plains, these are the locations that draw boatloads of scientists from all over the world. 06.30.2010
#22: Clear-Cutting Has a High Cost
Selling the lumber gets money in the short term but is a "lose-lose-lose" in the long term. 01.25.2010
The Calculating Beauty of Butterflies
How butterflies' colorful wing patterns help them hide, lie, and impress the ladies. 11.11.2009
The Strange Forests that Drink—and Eat—Fog
Several forests around the world use fog to get critical moisture and nutrients. 03.30.2009
Beautiful Images of Strange Fruits
The scarlet pimpernel's has a natural hinge. The blueberry glows brightly—in ultraviolet light. The Buddha's hand looks like… You guessed it. 03.11.2009
Want to Save the Trees? Try Paying People Not to Chop Them Down.
A few test projects show that landowners protect forest when it's valuable to them. 08.20.2008
Wildlife Conservation 2.0
A new software-based approach may be the key to saving thousands of species. 05.12.2008
Warming May Radically Change Ecosystems
Amazonia becomes savanna. The Sahara? No one knows. 06.15.2007
Black Gold of the Amazon
Precious soil could save the rainforest and combat global warming. 04.30.2007
Barren Jungles, Beautiful Deserts
Life's bounty, where you least expect to find it 06.25.2006
Are the Desert People Winning?
There's a big difference between people from forests and those from arid lands. 08.06.2005
The List Gets Longer: New Primates Found
04.28.2005
A Naturalist's Paradise
In a wonderland called Madagascar, a modern-day Darwin discovers hundreds of new species 03.31.2005
60: Royal Tomb Reveals Secrets of the Maya
01.02.2005
Stopping the Archaeological Plunder
02.19.2004
Attack of the Yellow Crazy Ants
01.02.2004
The Amazon Trail
Anna Roosevelt's ventures into the jungles of South America have turned up traces of human settlements far older than archaeologists ever suspected 05.01.2002
Biology
Year In Science 01.13.2002
Flesh-eating Plants
Where rocks sing, ants swim, and plants eat animals 10.01.2001
The Deadliest Carnivore
Half mongoose, half clouded leopard, Madagascar's fossa is rarely seen and barely understood yet essential to the natural balance of this threatened Eden 04.01.2000
Hanging by a Thread
With all but a quarter of Hawaii's native birds extinct or endangered, and its other species dying off faster than the dinosaurs, some island ecologists are risking their lives to save what's left 02.01.2000
Killer Pox in the Congo
The last documented case of smallpox occurred in 1977. Now a deadly kin of the virus is spreading out of the forest and into villages. by Wendy Orent 10.01.1999
Beasts in the Mist
If David Oren could find just one of the horrifying creatures he knows are out there-- huge sloths with giant claws and a reputation for twisting off the heads of humans--he could save the world's largest rain forest 09.01.1999
Environmental Myths
Environmental Myths 03.01.1999
Silicon Stalkings
11.01.1998
A Briquette a Day
07.01.1998
Light Elements: Yankee Doodle Druid
What were people in New Hampshire doing4,000 years ago with a sacrificial table? 02.01.1998
The Year in Science: Animals 1997
A Plague on Frogs 01.01.1998
The Year in Science: Animals 1997
Antic Frogs 01.01.1998
The Year in Science: Animals 1997
A Plague on Frogs 01.01.1998
Life on the Edge
12.01.1997
Mr. Wallace's Line
Through the ocean just east of Borneo runs an invisible line that separates the world of tigers from the world of kangaroos. Getting across that line may have seen what made our ancestors truly human. 08.01.1997
Real Men Don't Eat Deer
You are what you eat, the saying goes. But what you don't eat says a lot too. 06.01.1997
On the Origin of (Amazonian) Species
How did the Amazon achieve its stunning diversity? Some say great rivers are responsible, others point to vanished hills and seas. Now one team of zoologists is listening to what the rats have to say. 04.01.1997
The New Americans
01.01.1997
We Are All Panamanians
04.01.1996
State of the Earth: 1995
01.01.1996
A Sanctuary Under Siege
03.01.1994
Secrets of the Shamans
Western drug hunters are swarming over the globe looking for medicinal plants. 11.01.1993
Back to Nature
You can put a zoo-bred animal back into the wild. But that doesn't mean you're putting back anything like a wild animal. 07.01.1993
A Question of Size
Bigger is better, right? So why in the world have Pygmies opted for smallness? 05.01.1992
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