Category Science

Humans have only visually explored 0.001 percent of the deep sea — it’s deep, dark, but full of life.  In this exclusive Discover Magazine podcast episode, we speak with Dr.…

After 12,000 years of calm, a seismic outburst is brewing in northwestern Canada as an ancient geologic fault grows restless. The Tintina fault, which stretches across the Yukon Territory and…

In a discovery that sounds like science fiction, researchers have shown that human brains emit flashes of light that can pass through the skull. These signals are so tiny and…

Astronomers have detected precursors to the building blocks of life on the discs of V883 Orionis, a young star located 1,305 light-years from Earth in the constellation Orion. Scientists writing…

Astronomers have captured images of what is thought to be Betelgeuse’s stellar companion – not only detecting a star orbiting a supergiant in a world-first, but solving a mystery that…

Antarctica is commonly known as the land of penguins, cold temperatures, and is home to about 90 percent of the world’s ice. But did you know that under all of…

As humans, we heavily depend on our five senses. These senses help us process the world around us by sending a variety of signals for our brains to interpret, whether…

We all have one: a junk drawer that we stuff full of all our random — and often useless — items that we can’t throw away. However, once in a…

When most people think of the Paleolithic era, they likely think of ancient hominins with spears chasing after wooly mammoths. Or they think of cave men numbly knocking rocks together,…

You can’t always judge a book by its cover. That is a lesson scientists have recently learned about the nectocaridid — a 500-million-year-old marine creature that looked like a squid…