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Discover how an ape playing tea party teaches us humans are not the only beings with complex mental lives. www.discovermagazine.com/bonobo-kanzi...
Bonobo Kanzi Plays Pretend Like a Child, Showing Ape’s Capacity to Imagine
Discover how an ape playing tea party teaches us humans are not the only beings with complex mental lives.
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February 17, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Discover how an ape playing tea party teaches us humans are not the only beings with complex mental lives. www.discovermagazine.com/bonobo-kanzi...
Learn more about termite evolution and how shedding key genes from their cockroach ancestors helped them build more complex colonies. www.discovermagazine.com/termites-los...
Termites Lost Key Genes — and Gained the Monogamy That Built Their Complex Societies
Learn more about termite evolution and how shedding key genes from their cockroach ancestors helped them build more complex colonies.
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February 17, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Learn more about termite evolution and how shedding key genes from their cockroach ancestors helped them build more complex colonies. www.discovermagazine.com/termites-los...
Many ordinary people have skills that the rest of us might call superpowers. Learn how you may be able to teach yourself these abilities, too. www.discovermagazine.com/3-superhuman...
3 Superhuman Traits That Some Are Born With — and Others You Can Learn
Many ordinary people have skills that the rest of us might call superpowers. Learn how you may be able to teach yourself these abilities, too.
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February 17, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Many ordinary people have skills that the rest of us might call superpowers. Learn how you may be able to teach yourself these abilities, too. www.discovermagazine.com/3-superhuman...
Learn how a shredded star triggered a black hole jet that evolved into a years-long energy surge that continues to intensify. www.discovermagazine.com/a-supermassi...
A Supermassive Black Hole Shredded a Star — and Is Still Burping Out Its Bright Remains
Learn how a shredded star triggered a black hole jet that evolved into a years-long energy surge that continues to intensify.
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February 17, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Learn how a shredded star triggered a black hole jet that evolved into a years-long energy surge that continues to intensify. www.discovermagazine.com/a-supermassi...
Learn how Miocene fossils from the Mojave Desert reveal that pronghorn running adaptations developed long before high-speed cheetahs appeared in North America. www.discovermagazine.com/fossils-show...
Fossils Show Pronghorn Speed Predates the American Cheetah by 5 Million Years
Learn how Miocene fossils from the Mojave Desert reveal that pronghorn running adaptations developed long before high-speed cheetahs appeared in North America.
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February 17, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Learn how Miocene fossils from the Mojave Desert reveal that pronghorn running adaptations developed long before high-speed cheetahs appeared in North America. www.discovermagazine.com/fossils-show...
Learn about two major events happening in the sky this February 2026: a solar eclipse that will create a "ring of fire" and a six-planet parade. www.discovermagazine.com/catch-a-ring...
Catch a 'Ring of Fire' Eclipse and Rare Planetary Parade This February 2026
Learn about two major events happening in the sky this February 2026: a solar eclipse that will create a "ring of fire" and a six-planet parade.
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February 17, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Learn about two major events happening in the sky this February 2026: a solar eclipse that will create a "ring of fire" and a six-planet parade. www.discovermagazine.com/catch-a-ring...
Learn how six months of underwater recordings uncovered new details about how beaked whales hunt near the ocean bottom. www.discovermagazine.com/elusive-beak...
Elusive Beaked Whales May Dive Over 3,000 Feet to Forage Near the Seafloor
Learn how six months of underwater recordings uncovered new details about how beaked whales hunt near the ocean bottom.
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February 12, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Learn how six months of underwater recordings uncovered new details about how beaked whales hunt near the ocean bottom. www.discovermagazine.com/elusive-beak...
Discover how a surgical team engineered an improvised artificial lung system that kept a man alive for 48 hours without lungs. www.discovermagazine.com/how-surgeons...
How Surgeons Kept a Man With No Lungs Alive for Two Days
Discover how a surgical team engineered an improvised artificial lung system that kept a man alive for 48 hours without lungs.
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February 12, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Discover how a surgical team engineered an improvised artificial lung system that kept a man alive for 48 hours without lungs. www.discovermagazine.com/how-surgeons...
Learn how looking in Archaeopteryx’s fossilized mouth uncovered weird features unique to birds, supporting their ability to fly. www.discovermagazine.com/archaeoptery...
Archaeopteryx — The Earliest Known Bird — Had a Strange Mouth, but Fed Like Modern Birds
Learn how looking in Archaeopteryx’s fossilized mouth uncovered weird features unique to birds, supporting their ability to fly.
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February 12, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Learn how looking in Archaeopteryx’s fossilized mouth uncovered weird features unique to birds, supporting their ability to fly. www.discovermagazine.com/archaeoptery...
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...