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- Denmark is Building an ‘Energy Island’. By 2030, an artificial landmass far off the country’s western coast will channel green electricity from a vast network of wind turbines and transmit it to the mainland — enough to power 3 million homes at first, and later 10 million. https://www.discovermagazine.com/environment/denmark-is-building-an-energy-island 9 comments environment
- Delta-8-THC Promises to Get You High Without the Paranoia or Anxiety https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/delta-8-thc-promises-to-get-you-high-without-the-paranoia-or-anxiety 240 comments worldnews
- Building the Perfect Profanity - " Sticking -pig or -mouth to the end of your favoured swear word will probably have the desired effect, according to the work, while adding -newspaper or -fireplace could leave your insult falling flat." https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/building-the-perfect-profanity 52 comments linguistics
- Thirdhand Smoke: Study Finds Smokers’ Clothes are Carrying Cigarette Chemicals Indoors https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/thirdhand-smoke-study-finds-smokers-clothes-are-carrying-cigarette-chemicals 40 comments science
- New studies of preserved specimens reveal that there are at least 15 more species of parasitic wasps than previously thought. The larvae of these insects eat their host spiders while simultaneously controlling their minds https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/researchers-discover-15-new-parasitic-wasps-that-mind-control-spiders 3 comments science
- Scientists Brought Brains Brought Back to Life Four Hours After Death https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/scientists-brought-brains-brought-back-to-life-four-hours-after-death 66 comments worldnews
- Scientists Just Created a Bacteria That Eats CO2 to Reduce Greenhouse Gases https://www.discovermagazine.com/environment/scientists-just-created-a-bacteria-that-eats-co2-to-reduce-greenhouse-gases 6 comments science
- Stanford researchers studying MDMA say they’ve identified separate brain pathways that activate addiction and social behavior. The finding suggests an altered form of the drug might one day give users a social boost without the risk of addiction. https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/trip-therapy-scientists-pin-down-how-mdma-works-in-the-brain 22 comments science
- Earth May Be a 1-in-700-Quintillion Kind of Place https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/earth-may-be-a-1-in-700-quintillion-kind-of-place 58 comments space
- Earth May Be a 1-in-700-Quintillion Kind of Place https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/earth-may-be-a-1-in-700-quintillion-kind-of-place 18 comments science
- Into the Mind of a Psychopath http://discovermagazine.com/2016/june/12-psychopath-and-the-hare 8 comments science
- No Such Thing As A Black Hole? http://discovermagazine.com/2015/april/20-no-such-thing-as-a-black-hole 4 comments science
- We know the world can be described by mathematics. But what if the universe IS mathematics? (an extract from new book, Our Mathematical Universe) http://discovermagazine.com/2013/dec/13-math-made-flesh#.usvuamrduxs 8 comments math
- Will we be seeing a resurgence in airships? Or is this just a novelty that keeps popping up every few years? http://discovermagazine.com/2013/nov/02-hybrid-airship#.ulyun7okwrs 40 comments technology
- The "Interpreter" in Your Head Spins Stories to Make Sense of the World http://discovermagazine.com/2012/brain/22-interpreter-in-your-head-spins-stories?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+discovermindbrain+%28discover+mind+%26+brain%29&utm_content=google+reader 12 comments cogsci
- Cool, now I'm pondering qualia again... (from r/science) http://discovermagazine.com/2012/jul-aug/06-humans-with-super-human-vision/article_view?b_start:int=0&-c= 9 comments cogsci
- The Brain: Stop Paying Attention: Zoning Out Is a Crucial Mental State http://discovermagazine.com/2009/jul-aug/15-brain-stop-paying-attention-zoning-out-crucial-mental-state/article_view?b_start:int=1&-c= 45 comments science
- The Strange Physics—and Singular Sights—Inside Black Holes http://discovermagazine.com/2011/jun/26-strange-physics-singular-views-inside-black-holes 3 comments space
- Admit it, space shuttle a flop http://discovermagazine.com/2011/jul-aug/22-how-to-avoid-repeating-debacle-of-space-shuttle 13 comments politics
- The Most Psychedelic Images in Science http://discovermagazine.com/photos/27-the-most-psychedelic-images-in-science 38 comments science
- Research points to an infection-based origin for diseases such as schizophrenia, MS http://discovermagazine.com/2010/jun/03-the-insanity-virus/ 7 comments cogsci
- Oliver Sacks on the next thirty years of neuroscience: learning to exploit the amazing plasticity of the brain http://discovermagazine.com/2010/oct/13-oliver-sacks-exploit-plasticity-of-brain 4 comments cogsci
- Back From the Future: A series of quantum experiments shows that measurements performed in the future can influence the present. Does that mean the universe has a destiny—and the laws of physics pull us toward our fate? http://discovermagazine.com/2010/apr/01-back-from-the-future/ 44 comments science
- What Quirk of the Brain Turns People Into Compulsive Hoarders? http://discovermagazine.com/2010/the-brain/30-what-quirk-of-the-brain-turns-people-into-compulsive-hoarders 3 comments cogsci
- Thousands of years ago there lived a race of super intelligent hominids who have now gone extinct, They had huge heads and childlike faces. what made these beings disappear? Why did stupid humans survive and our brilliant relatives die out? http://discovermagazine.com/2009/the-brain-2/28-what-happened-to-hominids-who-were-smarter-than-us 3 comments reddit.com
- This scientist is willing to bet that more than 80 percent of all human cancer is caused by viruses. http://discovermagazine.com/2009/new-science-of-health/big-idea-beat-cancer-cut-health-care-costs-80-percent/ 57 comments science
- Why Aren’t All People Beautiful? http://discovermagazine.com/2007/dec/why-aren2019t-you-beautiful/article_print 5 comments science
- Robots Evolve And Learn How to Lie http://discovermagazine.com/2008/jan/robots-evolve-and-learn-how-to-lie 4 comments technology
- The Aggressive Egg - Sex & Reproduction http://discovermagazine.com/1992/jun/theaggressiveegg55 7 comments science
- Is the Universe Made of Math? - interview with Max Tegmark http://discovermagazine.com/2008/jul/16-is-the-universe-actually-made-of-math/article_print 18 comments math
- Is the Universe Actually Made of Math? Astrophysicist Adam Frank interviews cosmologist Max Tegmark http://discovermagazine.com/2008/jul/16-is-the-universe-actually-made-of-math 29 comments science
- Want to Help the Environment? Eat Insects. http://discovermagazine.com/2008/may/07-want-to-help-the-environment-eat-insects 3 comments science
- Three Words That Could Overthrow Physics: “What Is Magnetism?” http://discovermagazine.com/2008/may/02-three-words-that-could-overthrow-physics 16 comments science
- Calculus Was Developed in Medieval India http://discovermagazine.com/2008/jan/calculus-was-developed-in-medieval-india 23 comments science
- Did a Comet Cause the Great Flood? http://discovermagazine.com/2007/nov/did-a-comet-cause-the-great-flood/article_view?b_start:int=0&-c= 4 comments science
- String Theory in 2 minutes of less [Video] http://discovermagazine.com/twominutesorless?bcpid=716091875&bclid=686943766&bctid=687029421 19 comments science
- Science's Worst Enemy: Corporate Funding http://discovermagazine.com/2007/oct/sciences-worst-enemy-private-funding 3 comments science
- In 2009 a Florida Plant Will Use Plasma to Convert 1000 Tons of Trash a Day Into Energy http://discovermagazine.com/2007/may/the-ultimate-garbage-disposal 25 comments reddit.com
- Convert anything into oil - save the planet! http://discovermagazine.com/2006/apr/anything-oil 13 comments science