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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
Learn more about the complicated ways cats communicate and how new research is trying to understand the power behind the meow. www.discovermagazine.com/cats-rarely-...
Cats Rarely Meow at Other Cats — Do They Save Their Voices for Us? Here's What We Know
Learn more about the complicated ways cats communicate and how new research is trying to understand the power behind the meow.
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February 4, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Learn more about the complicated ways cats communicate and how new research is trying to understand the power behind the meow. www.discovermagazine.com/cats-rarely-...
Learn how archaeologists dated stone tools from central China and what they reveal about when early humans in Asia began using complex tools. www.discovermagazine.com/160-000-year...
160,000-Year-Old Stone Tools Reveal Advanced Tool Making in East Asia
Learn how archaeologists dated stone tools from central China and what they reveal about when early humans in Asia began using complex tools.
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February 4, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Learn how archaeologists dated stone tools from central China and what they reveal about when early humans in Asia began using complex tools. www.discovermagazine.com/160-000-year...
For people who aren’t interested in total abstinence, cannabis-infused beverages may offer a way to reduce alcohol use while keeping familiar rituals intact. www.discovermagazine.com/cannabis-dri...
Cannabis Drinks Are Growing in Popularity — and Helping Some People Drink Less Alcohol
For people who aren’t interested in total abstinence, cannabis-infused beverages may offer a way to reduce alcohol use while keeping familiar rituals intact.
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February 4, 2026 at 5:00 PM
For people who aren’t interested in total abstinence, cannabis-infused beverages may offer a way to reduce alcohol use while keeping familiar rituals intact. www.discovermagazine.com/cannabis-dri...
Learn more about Inspector Clouseau, the only pink manta ray in the world, and what turned him pink. www.discovermagazine.com/what-gave-th...
What Gave the World’s Only Pink Manta Ray Its Rosy Hue?
Learn more about Inspector Clouseau, the only pink manta ray in the world, and what turned him pink.
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February 4, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Learn more about Inspector Clouseau, the only pink manta ray in the world, and what turned him pink. www.discovermagazine.com/what-gave-th...
Learn how artificial intelligence is helping reinterpret dinosaur footprints, including bird-like tracks that blur the line between dinosaurs and early birds. www.discovermagazine.com/how-ai-is-so...
How AI Is Solving Some of Paleontology’s Biggest Dinosaur Footprint Mysteries
Learn how artificial intelligence is helping reinterpret dinosaur footprints, including bird-like tracks that blur the line between dinosaurs and early birds.
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February 4, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Learn how artificial intelligence is helping reinterpret dinosaur footprints, including bird-like tracks that blur the line between dinosaurs and early birds. www.discovermagazine.com/how-ai-is-so...