Discover Magazine
@discovermag.bsky.social
The official Bluesky for Discover Magazine.
Science that matters, for readers that matter.
🔬🧪⚗️🧫🧬🧲🧮🥼📐🌳🌍🪨⛅💧🦠
Science that matters, for readers that matter.
🔬🧪⚗️🧫🧬🧲🧮🥼📐🌳🌍🪨⛅💧🦠
Learn how nitrogen isotope tests made meat-eating cats appear plant-based, and what their protein metabolism reveals about interpreting animal diets. www.discovermagazine.com/cats-hair-an...
Cats’ Hair and Whiskers Suggest a Vegan Diet in Lab Tests — Despite Being Carnivores
Learn how nitrogen isotope tests made meat-eating cats appear plant-based, and what their protein metabolism reveals about interpreting animal diets.
www.discovermagazine.com
February 11, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Learn how nitrogen isotope tests made meat-eating cats appear plant-based, and what their protein metabolism reveals about interpreting animal diets. www.discovermagazine.com/cats-hair-an...
Learn about the continent-sized rocks hidden deep within Earth's mantle that have influenced the magnetic field for millions of years. www.discovermagazine.com/gigantic-hot...
Gigantic Hot Rock Blobs Have Impacted Earth's Magnetic Field For Over 200 Million Years
Learn about the continent-sized rocks hidden deep within Earth's mantle that have influenced the magnetic field for millions of years.
www.discovermagazine.com
February 11, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Learn about the continent-sized rocks hidden deep within Earth's mantle that have influenced the magnetic field for millions of years. www.discovermagazine.com/gigantic-hot...
Learn more about the rare instances when seismic and magma activity overlap in Yellowstone National Park. www.discovermagazine.com/what-happens...
What Happens When Magma and Earthquakes Align in Yellowstone National Park?
Learn more about the rare instances when seismic and magma activity overlap in Yellowstone National Park.
www.discovermagazine.com
February 11, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Learn more about the rare instances when seismic and magma activity overlap in Yellowstone National Park. www.discovermagazine.com/what-happens...
Learn more about how whales communicate and how researchers are working to find out if humans and whales could one day communicate with each other. www.discovermagazine.com/whales-are-c...
Whales are Capable of Complex Communication — Could Humans Ever Talk With Them?
Learn more about how whales communicate and how researchers are working to find out if humans and whales could one day communicate with each other.
www.discovermagazine.com
February 11, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Learn more about how whales communicate and how researchers are working to find out if humans and whales could one day communicate with each other. www.discovermagazine.com/whales-are-c...
Learn more about the Artemis II launch delay, what concluded the fuel test, and how NASA plans to move forward with its next crewed Moon mission. www.discovermagazine.com/nasa-s-artem...
NASA’s Artemis II Mission Now Targeting March 2026 Launch After Fuel Test Issue
Learn more about the Artemis II launch delay, what concluded the fuel test, and how NASA plans to move forward with its next crewed Moon mission.
www.discovermagazine.com
February 11, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Learn more about the Artemis II launch delay, what concluded the fuel test, and how NASA plans to move forward with its next crewed Moon mission. www.discovermagazine.com/nasa-s-artem...
Learn about the latest model of Jupiter's deep atmosphere that reveals how much oxygen the planet contains. www.discovermagazine.com/new-model-cl...
New Model Clarifies a Jupiter Mystery After Finding Oxygen Hidden Beneath Storm Clouds
Learn about the latest model of Jupiter's deep atmosphere that reveals how much oxygen the planet contains.
www.discovermagazine.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Learn about the latest model of Jupiter's deep atmosphere that reveals how much oxygen the planet contains. www.discovermagazine.com/new-model-cl...
As nighttime noise rises, millions turn to pink noise for relief, but the steady hum meant to protect sleep may quietly interfere with the brain’s most restorative stage. www.discovermagazine.com/pink-noise-i...
Pink Noise Is Meant to Help You Sleep, But May Keep Your Brain Awake Instead
As nighttime noise rises, millions turn to pink noise for relief, but the steady hum meant to protect sleep may quietly interfere with the brain’s most restorative stage.
www.discovermagazine.com
February 10, 2026 at 9:02 PM
As nighttime noise rises, millions turn to pink noise for relief, but the steady hum meant to protect sleep may quietly interfere with the brain’s most restorative stage. www.discovermagazine.com/pink-noise-i...
Learn how tiny fossils from Spain led to the discovery of Foskeia and a new chapter in dinosaur evolution. www.discovermagazine.com/unusually-sm...
Unusually Small Dinosaur Fossil Helps Fill a 70-Million-Year Gap in Ornithopod Evolution
Learn how tiny fossils from Spain led to the discovery of Foskeia and a new chapter in dinosaur evolution.
www.discovermagazine.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Learn how tiny fossils from Spain led to the discovery of Foskeia and a new chapter in dinosaur evolution. www.discovermagazine.com/unusually-sm...
Learn how increased protein diversity in signaling genes may have helped drive the shift from invertebrates to vertebrates, reshaping how animals with a spine evolved. www.discovermagazine.com/a-small-gene...
A Small Genetic Shift May Have Launched Vertebrate Evolution
Learn how increased protein diversity in signaling genes may have helped drive the shift from invertebrates to vertebrates, reshaping how animals with a spine evolved.
www.discovermagazine.com
February 10, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Learn how increased protein diversity in signaling genes may have helped drive the shift from invertebrates to vertebrates, reshaping how animals with a spine evolved. www.discovermagazine.com/a-small-gene...
Learn why only 14 out of over 6,000 exoplanets orbit two stars, and how Einstein’s general theory of relativity may be to blame. www.discovermagazine.com/planets-with...
Planets With Two Suns Are Almost Impossible To Find — General Relativity May Be Why
Learn why only 14 out of over 6,000 exoplanets orbit two stars, and how Einstein’s general theory of relativity may be to blame.
www.discovermagazine.com
February 10, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Learn why only 14 out of over 6,000 exoplanets orbit two stars, and how Einstein’s general theory of relativity may be to blame. www.discovermagazine.com/planets-with...
Learn more about European wildcats — a species almost thought to be extinct that’s making a bit of a comeback. www.discovermagazine.com/european-wil...
European Wildcats Are Slowly Making a Comeback in the Forests of Central Europe
Learn more about European wildcats — a species almost thought to be extinct that’s making a bit of a comeback.
www.discovermagazine.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Learn more about European wildcats — a species almost thought to be extinct that’s making a bit of a comeback. www.discovermagazine.com/european-wil...
Two patients have been hospitalized in India — learn more about the zoonotic disease responsible. www.discovermagazine.com/what-is-the-...
What Is the Nipah Virus and Should We Be Concerned?
Two patients have been hospitalized in India — learn more about the zoonotic disease responsible.
www.discovermagazine.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Two patients have been hospitalized in India — learn more about the zoonotic disease responsible. www.discovermagazine.com/what-is-the-...
Learn more about how Earth’s crust unzipped beneath the Atlantic Ocean, creating a giant underwater canyon. www.discovermagazine.com/the-atlantic...
The Atlantic Ocean May Have Its Own Grand Canyon — and It Might Be Even Bigger
Learn more about how Earth’s crust unzipped beneath the Atlantic Ocean, creating a giant underwater canyon.
www.discovermagazine.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Learn more about how Earth’s crust unzipped beneath the Atlantic Ocean, creating a giant underwater canyon. www.discovermagazine.com/the-atlantic...
Learn how fossils from Colorado’s Morrison Formation helped researchers reconstruct a Late Jurassic food web and uncover the role of young sauropods. www.discovermagazine.com/jurassic-pre...
Jurassic Predators Feasted on Baby Long-Necked Dinosaurs 150 Million Years Ago
Learn how fossils from Colorado’s Morrison Formation helped researchers reconstruct a Late Jurassic food web and uncover the role of young sauropods.
www.discovermagazine.com
February 6, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Learn how fossils from Colorado’s Morrison Formation helped researchers reconstruct a Late Jurassic food web and uncover the role of young sauropods. www.discovermagazine.com/jurassic-pre...
Learn more about how and why we form social media habits and some ways you can break your own social media habits. www.discovermagazine.com/social-media...
Social Media Habits Are Easy to Form — And Easier to Break Than You Might Think
Learn more about how and why we form social media habits and some ways you can break your own social media habits.
www.discovermagazine.com
February 6, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Learn more about how and why we form social media habits and some ways you can break your own social media habits. www.discovermagazine.com/social-media...
Learn more about the landslide that’s left some homes teetering on the edge of a cliff. www.discovermagazine.com/landslide-ca...
Landslide Causes 1,500 Residents to Evacuate Small Sicilian Town
Learn more about the landslide that’s left some homes teetering on the edge of a cliff.
www.discovermagazine.com
February 6, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Learn more about the landslide that’s left some homes teetering on the edge of a cliff. www.discovermagazine.com/landslide-ca...
Learn how polar bears in the Arctic’s Barents Sea are maintaining healthy fat reserves despite sea ice loss in a warming climate. www.discovermagazine.com/adult-polar-...
Adult Polar Bears in Svalbard Are Gaining Fat Even as Arctic Sea Ice Shrinks
Learn how polar bears in the Arctic’s Barents Sea are maintaining healthy fat reserves despite sea ice loss in a warming climate.
www.discovermagazine.com
February 6, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Learn how polar bears in the Arctic’s Barents Sea are maintaining healthy fat reserves despite sea ice loss in a warming climate. www.discovermagazine.com/adult-polar-...
Openly sold in and widely eaten in Asia, Lanmaoa asiatica can cause bizarre, highly specific hallucinations, challenging what we know about fungal toxins. www.discovermagazine.com/this-popular...
This Popular Culinary Mushroom Turns Meals into Visions, Making People See “Little Elves”
Openly sold in and widely eaten in Asia, Lanmaoa asiatica can cause bizarre, highly specific hallucinations, challenging what we know about fungal toxins.
www.discovermagazine.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Openly sold in and widely eaten in Asia, Lanmaoa asiatica can cause bizarre, highly specific hallucinations, challenging what we know about fungal toxins. www.discovermagazine.com/this-popular...
Learn how physicists recreated the early universe’s primordial soup, known as quark-gluon plasma, and discovered how it responds when particles race through it. www.discovermagazine.com/physicists-f...
First Direct Evidence Suggests the Universe’s Primordial Soup Behaved Like a Liquid
Learn how physicists recreated the early universe’s primordial soup, known as quark-gluon plasma, and discovered how it responds when particles race through it.
www.discovermagazine.com
February 5, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Learn how physicists recreated the early universe’s primordial soup, known as quark-gluon plasma, and discovered how it responds when particles race through it. www.discovermagazine.com/physicists-f...
Learn more about what causes acne in humans and how it can sometimes impact animals, too. www.discovermagazine.com/why-do-human...
Why Do Humans Get Acne, and Is it Unique to Us? Here’s What to Know
Learn more about what causes acne in humans and how it can sometimes impact animals, too.
www.discovermagazine.com
February 5, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Learn more about what causes acne in humans and how it can sometimes impact animals, too. www.discovermagazine.com/why-do-human...
Learn about the bright streaks that may represent recent geological activity on Mercury, which has been considered a dead planet in the past. www.discovermagazine.com/bright-strea...
Bright Streaks on Mercury Suggest That It's Not a Dead Planet, but Geologically Active
Learn about the bright streaks that may represent recent geological activity on Mercury, which has been considered a dead planet in the past.
www.discovermagazine.com
February 5, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Learn about the bright streaks that may represent recent geological activity on Mercury, which has been considered a dead planet in the past. www.discovermagazine.com/bright-strea...
Learn how doctors are developing a new platform that uses bacteria and protein design to speed early vaccine testing and production. www.discovermagazine.com/a-new-vaccin...
A New Vaccine Platform Could Cut Development Timelines From Months to Weeks
Learn how doctors are developing a new platform that uses bacteria and protein design to speed early vaccine testing and production.
www.discovermagazine.com
February 5, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Learn how doctors are developing a new platform that uses bacteria and protein design to speed early vaccine testing and production. www.discovermagazine.com/a-new-vaccin...
Learn how geological clues preserved in ancient oceans link repeated volcanic eruptions to Triassic marine extinctions. www.discovermagazine.com/hidden-under...
Hidden Underwater Volcanoes May Explain Half of Earth’s Triassic Extinctions
Learn how geological clues preserved in ancient oceans link repeated volcanic eruptions to Triassic marine extinctions.
www.discovermagazine.com
February 5, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Learn how geological clues preserved in ancient oceans link repeated volcanic eruptions to Triassic marine extinctions. www.discovermagazine.com/hidden-under...
Learn about the cult district of Nida, an ancient cult site uncovered under Frankfurt that archaeologists are calling one of the most significant Roman discoveries in Europe. www.discovermagazine.com/animal-offer...
Animal Offerings and Painted Walls Reveal Secrets of the Ancient Roman Cult Site Nida
Learn about the cult district of Nida, an ancient cult site uncovered under Frankfurt that archaeologists are calling one of the most significant Roman discoveries in Europe.
www.discovermagazine.com
February 5, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Learn about the cult district of Nida, an ancient cult site uncovered under Frankfurt that archaeologists are calling one of the most significant Roman discoveries in Europe. www.discovermagazine.com/animal-offer...
Learn more about how human voices, whether happy or angry, can impact a dog's balance. www.discovermagazine.com/listening-to...
Listening to Angry Human Voices Could Throw Off a Dog's Balance
Learn more about how human voices, whether happy or angry, can impact a dog's balance.
www.discovermagazine.com
February 4, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Learn more about how human voices, whether happy or angry, can impact a dog's balance. www.discovermagazine.com/listening-to...