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Learn how your body uses an immune-to-brain communication line to nudge you away from others when you’re getting sick. www.discovermagazine.com/feeling-anti...
Feeling Anti-Social When You’re Sick? Signals to the Brain Are Responsible
Learn how your body uses an immune-to-brain communication line to nudge you away from others when you’re getting sick.
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November 26, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Learn how your body uses an immune-to-brain communication line to nudge you away from others when you’re getting sick. www.discovermagazine.com/feeling-anti...
Discover how brain organoids are helping us uncover whether early thought patterns emerge from experience or are hardwired into our DNA. www.discovermagazine.com/our-brains-m...
Our Brains May Have Pre-Configured Instructions to Understand the World When We're Born
Discover how brain organoids are helping us uncover whether early thought patterns emerge from experience or are hardwired into our DNA.
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November 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Discover how brain organoids are helping us uncover whether early thought patterns emerge from experience or are hardwired into our DNA. www.discovermagazine.com/our-brains-m...
Learn about the recent eruption of Hayli Gubbi, a volcano in Ethiopia that was previously dormant for nearly 12,000 years. www.discovermagazine.com/an-ethiopian...
An Ethiopian Volcano Has Erupted with an Explosion of Ash, Awakening After 12,000 Years of Quiet
Learn about the recent eruption of Hayli Gubbi, a volcano in Ethiopia that was previously dormant for nearly 12,000 years.
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November 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Learn about the recent eruption of Hayli Gubbi, a volcano in Ethiopia that was previously dormant for nearly 12,000 years. www.discovermagazine.com/an-ethiopian...
Learn about how humans and golden retrievers share genetic traits that make us more likely to experience fear, anxiety, and embarrassment. www.discovermagazine.com/golden-retri...
'Golden Retriever Personality' May Hold Some Truth as Humans Share Same Genetic Roots
Learn about how humans and golden retrievers share genetic traits that make us more likely to experience fear, anxiety, and embarrassment.
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November 26, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Learn about how humans and golden retrievers share genetic traits that make us more likely to experience fear, anxiety, and embarrassment. www.discovermagazine.com/golden-retri...
Learn more about whooping cough and how a decline in vaccination rates may be contributing to a spike in cases. www.discovermagazine.com/falling-vacc...
Falling Vaccination Rates are Likley Behind Rise in Whooping Cough Cases
Learn more about whooping cough and how a decline in vaccination rates may be contributing to a spike in cases.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Learn more about whooping cough and how a decline in vaccination rates may be contributing to a spike in cases. www.discovermagazine.com/falling-vacc...
Discover how scientists have used iron isotopes to determine the likely origin of the Mars-sized planet named Theia. www.discovermagazine.com/earth-and-th...
Earth and the Mysterious Planet Theia Were Likely Close Neighbors Before the Moon Formed
Discover how scientists have used iron isotopes to determine the likely origin of the Mars-sized planet named Theia.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Discover how scientists have used iron isotopes to determine the likely origin of the Mars-sized planet named Theia. www.discovermagazine.com/earth-and-th...
Learn how tight clustering helps Madagascar’s hissing cockroaches conserve water during dry spells, offering new insight into how even large insects cope with environmental stress. www.discovermagazine.com/while-not-cu...
While Not Cute, Cockroaches Are Cuddly and Cluster Together to Stay Alive in Dry Air
Learn how tight clustering helps Madagascar’s hissing cockroaches conserve water during dry spells, offering new insight into how even large insects cope with environmental stress.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Learn how tight clustering helps Madagascar’s hissing cockroaches conserve water during dry spells, offering new insight into how even large insects cope with environmental stress. www.discovermagazine.com/while-not-cu...
Learn more about how AI is helping researchers map the seismic activity around volcanoes. www.discovermagazine.com/ai-reveals-w...
AI Reveals What Was Behind Those Santorini Earthquakes in Early 2025
Learn more about how AI is helping researchers map the seismic activity around volcanoes.
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November 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Learn more about how AI is helping researchers map the seismic activity around volcanoes. www.discovermagazine.com/ai-reveals-w...
Discover how wolves in British Columbia are using crab traps to reel in food. www.discovermagazine.com/rare-footage...
Rare Footage of Wolf Stealing Bait May Be First Reported Example of Tool Use in Species
Discover how wolves in British Columbia are using crab traps to reel in food.
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November 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Discover how wolves in British Columbia are using crab traps to reel in food. www.discovermagazine.com/rare-footage...
Learn how newly discovered vertebrae from a 6- to 8-meter shark pushes the origin of mega-predators back by 15 million years. www.discovermagazine.com/giant-115-mi...
Giant 115-Million-Year-Old Shark Fossil Found in Australia Rewrites Evolution Timeline
Learn how newly discovered vertebrae from a 6- to 8-meter shark pushes the origin of mega-predators back by 15 million years.
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November 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Learn how newly discovered vertebrae from a 6- to 8-meter shark pushes the origin of mega-predators back by 15 million years. www.discovermagazine.com/giant-115-mi...
Learn why researchers say the rules may not apply to the center of the universe. www.discovermagazine.com/where-is-the...
Where Is the Center of the Universe? Stop Looking — It’s Everywhere and Nowhere at Once
Where is the center of the universe? Learn why researchers say the rules may not apply to the center of the universe.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Learn why researchers say the rules may not apply to the center of the universe. www.discovermagazine.com/where-is-the...
Learn more about loggerhead turtles’ ability to feel the magnetic field throughout their migrations — an ability that they’ve revealed to researchers through dancing. www.discovermagazine.com/turtles-can-...
Turtles Can Sense Earth's Magnetic Field — And Some Even Dance When They Feel It
Learn more about loggerhead turtles’ ability to feel the magnetic field throughout their migrations — an ability that they’ve revealed to researchers through dancing.
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November 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Learn more about loggerhead turtles’ ability to feel the magnetic field throughout their migrations — an ability that they’ve revealed to researchers through dancing. www.discovermagazine.com/turtles-can-...
Learn how dolphins have fun by blowing bubble rings underwater, using clever tricks to play games. www.discovermagazine.com/dolphins-fli...
Dolphins Flip and Spin Bubble Rings to Play Underwater Games
Learn how dolphins have fun by blowing bubble rings underwater, using clever tricks to play games.
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November 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Learn how dolphins have fun by blowing bubble rings underwater, using clever tricks to play games. www.discovermagazine.com/dolphins-fli...
Starting in 2025, this year’s flu season is spreading early, and with vaccination rates low and a novel virus strain, health experts are warning that it could be a rough one. www.discovermagazine.com/new-flu-stra...
New Flu Strain and Low Vaccination Rates Could Mean Aggressive Flu Season Ahead
Starting in 2025, this year’s flu season is spreading early, and with vaccination rates low and a novel virus strain, health experts are warning that it could be a rough one.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Starting in 2025, this year’s flu season is spreading early, and with vaccination rates low and a novel virus strain, health experts are warning that it could be a rough one. www.discovermagazine.com/new-flu-stra...
Learn how stress inside a volcano can make gas bubbles form early, helping explain why some eruptions stay quiet instead of exploding. www.discovermagazine.com/some-volcano...
Some Volcanoes Don't Explode When Erupting — A Hidden Force Helps Pressure to Escape
Learn how stress inside a volcano can make gas bubbles form early, helping explain why some eruptions stay quiet instead of exploding.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Learn how stress inside a volcano can make gas bubbles form early, helping explain why some eruptions stay quiet instead of exploding. www.discovermagazine.com/some-volcano...
Learn how Bigfoot hunters are turning to high-tech science to prove their case, and what their quest can tell us about citizen scientists creating knowledge. www.discovermagazine.com/hunting-for-...
Hunting for Bigfoot Relies More on Science Than Skeptics Think
Learn how Bigfoot hunters are turning to high-tech science to prove their case, and what their quest can tell us about citizen scientists creating knowledge.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Learn how Bigfoot hunters are turning to high-tech science to prove their case, and what their quest can tell us about citizen scientists creating knowledge. www.discovermagazine.com/hunting-for-...
Learn how experience teaches the brain to distinguish between the words in languages over time. www.discovermagazine.com/here-s-why-w...
Here’s Why Words Blur Together When You Listen to a Foreign Language
Learn how experience teaches the brain to distinguish between the words in languages over time.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Learn how experience teaches the brain to distinguish between the words in languages over time. www.discovermagazine.com/here-s-why-w...
Learn more about the diseases Neanderthals endured and how their weakened immune system and encounters with humans made them more susceptible to infection. www.discovermagazine.com/did-neandert...
Did Neanderthals Deal with the Common Cold and Other Types of Ailments?
Learn more about the diseases Neanderthals endured and how their weakened immune system and encounters with humans made them more susceptible to infection.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Learn more about the diseases Neanderthals endured and how their weakened immune system and encounters with humans made them more susceptible to infection. www.discovermagazine.com/did-neandert...
Learn how faults beneath the Earth's surface can heal themselves after slowly releasing stress from the movement of tectonic plates. www.discovermagazine.com/earthquake-f...
Earthquake Faults Can Heal Themselves In Mere Hours, Adding Power to Disastrous Quakes
Learn how faults beneath the Earth's surface can heal themselves after slowly releasing stress from the movement of tectonic plates.
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November 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Learn how faults beneath the Earth's surface can heal themselves after slowly releasing stress from the movement of tectonic plates. www.discovermagazine.com/earthquake-f...
Swapping colonoscopies for swallowing a pill packed with bacteria that can read the condition of our gut could revolutionize gastroenterology and seriously relieve patients. www.discovermagazine.com/glowing-bact...
Glowing Bacteria Pills Could Replace Colonoscopies and Detect Gut Disease
Swapping colonoscopies for swallowing a pill packed with bacteria that can read the condition of our gut could revolutionize gastroenterology and seriously relieve patients.
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November 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Swapping colonoscopies for swallowing a pill packed with bacteria that can read the condition of our gut could revolutionize gastroenterology and seriously relieve patients. www.discovermagazine.com/glowing-bact...
Learn how rats, originally brought over to Easter Island as a food source, are partially to blame for the destruction of palm forests on Rapa Nui. www.discovermagazine.com/the-real-cul...
The Real Culprit Behind Easter Island’s Lost Forest Isn't Humans — It's Millions of Hungry Rats
Learn how rats, originally brought over to Easter Island as a food source, are partially to blame for the destruction of palm forests on Rapa Nui.
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November 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Learn how rats, originally brought over to Easter Island as a food source, are partially to blame for the destruction of palm forests on Rapa Nui. www.discovermagazine.com/the-real-cul...
Learn how new genomic tools revealed that cabernet sauvignon preserves inherited chemical signatures dating back 400 years. www.discovermagazine.com/the-world-s-...
The World’s Most-Planted Wine Grape Still Carries Signals From the 1600s
Learn how new genomic tools revealed that cabernet sauvignon preserves inherited chemical signatures dating back 400 years.
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November 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Learn how new genomic tools revealed that cabernet sauvignon preserves inherited chemical signatures dating back 400 years. www.discovermagazine.com/the-world-s-...
A grand Bronze Age settlement in today’s Kazakhstan tells one of humanity’s most important stories — the shift from a nomadic to a settled lifestyle. www.discovermagazine.com/ancient-step...
Ancient Steppe Settlement Hides Evidence of Industrial-Level Bronze Production 3,500 Years Ago
A grand Bronze Age settlement in today’s Kazakhstan tells one of humanity’s most important stories — the shift from a nomadic to a settled lifestyle.
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November 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
A grand Bronze Age settlement in today’s Kazakhstan tells one of humanity’s most important stories — the shift from a nomadic to a settled lifestyle. www.discovermagazine.com/ancient-step...
Learn how scientists traced kissing back 21 million years using primate behavior, evolutionary modeling, and clues from Neanderthals. www.discovermagazine.com/bizarre-orig...
Bizarre Origins of Kissing Trace Back 21 Million Years to Apes — And Possibly Neanderthals
Learn how scientists traced kissing back 21 million years using primate behavior, evolutionary modeling, and clues from Neanderthals.
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November 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Learn how scientists traced kissing back 21 million years using primate behavior, evolutionary modeling, and clues from Neanderthals. www.discovermagazine.com/bizarre-orig...
Learn how a common interpretation of Neanderthal noses could be changed due to a skeleton trapped inside a sinkhole. www.discovermagazine.com/upside-down-...
Upside-Down Skull Reveals That Neanderthal Noses Lacked Special Traits to Deal With Cold Air
Learn how a common interpretation of Neanderthal noses could be changed due to a skeleton trapped inside a sinkhole.
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November 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Learn how a common interpretation of Neanderthal noses could be changed due to a skeleton trapped inside a sinkhole. www.discovermagazine.com/upside-down-...