In der aktuellen Ausgabe von Discover

• THE LATEST NEWS AND NOTES
  WHEATS OF THE WORLD SCIENCE ON THE EDGE SOLITUDE STUDIES THE ANCIENT TOLL OF OFFICE WORK MARSUPIAL MEETINGS ECLIPSE EFFECTS DRIVING DIVERSITY ON ISLANDS
• HARVESTING HISTORY
  TO ADDRESS FEEDING THE WORLD’S GROWING POPULATION, EXPERTS TURN TO 100-YEAR-OLD WHEAT.
• SETTING SPACE BOUNDARIES
  HOW DO ASTRONOMERS DETERMINE WHERE GALAXIES END? LEARN HOW GAS DENSITY AND LOCATION DEFINE A GALAXY’S EDGES.
• SCIENTISTS SEEKING SOLITUDE
  THE NEW SCIENCE OF SOLITUDE SUGGESTS THAT YOU DON’T HAVE TO CLOSE YOURSELF OFF FROM THE WORLD TO GET THE BENEFITS OF BEING ALONE.
• ANCIENT EGYPTIANS HAD POOR POSTURE AT WORK, TOO
  ARTHRITIS AND WORN JOINTS REVEAL THE PHYSICAL TOLL OF BEING A SCRIBE AROUND 4,000 YEARS AGO.
• MEET THE QUOKKA
  THE IMPOSSIBLY CUTE MARSUPIAL HAS TAKEN SOCIAL MEDIA BY STORM, BUT IT’S FACING UNEXPECTED THREATS IN ITS SOUTHWESTERN AUSTRALIAN HOME.
• How Animals Experience an Eclipse
  THE TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSES IN 2017 AND 2024 PRESENTED SCIENTISTS WITH A FRESH OPPORTUNITY TO UNDERSTAND THE UNUSUAL REACTIONS OF ANIMALS DURING ASTRONOMICAL PHENOMENA.
• Islands Are Laboratories — Of Language and Life
  ISLANDS TAKE UP LITTLE OF EARTH’S INHABITED LAND BUT CHURN OUT LANGUAGES LIKE NO CONTINENT CAN.
• A Stomach-Turning Surprise
  THE SYMPTOMS POINTED TO A CLASSIC CASE OF GALLSTONES. BUT THE REAL PROBLEM WAS ENOUGH TO MAKE ANYONE WISH FOR GALLSTONES.
• Allergic to EVERYTHING
  HOW ONE OF THE OLDEST COMPONENTS OF THE HUMAN IMMUNE SYSTEM CAN TRIGGER A MYSTERIOUS AND LITTLE-UNDERSTOOD SYNDROME.
• DOCTOR Drosophila
  Meet Drosophila melanogaster, the tiny fly behind more than 100 years of biomedical science.
• You & Your mucus
  THE SNOT INSIDE YOUR NOSE MAY BE UNPLEASANT, BUT IT’S ALSO WHAT MAKES YOU, YOU, ACCORDING TO THE NEWEST MUCUS-RELATED RESEARCH.
• Top Secrets
  WE ALL HAVE SOMETHING TO HIDE, BUT ONLY RECENTLY HAVE THE LEADING SECRECY SCIENTISTS EXPOSED HOW KEEPING AND SHARING INFORMATION AFFECTS US.
• On the Mark
  HOW DID ANIMALS DEVELOP THEIR DISTINCTIVE SPOTS, STRIPES, AND OTHER MARKINGS? NEW RESEARCH UPGRADES A FAMOUS MATHEMATICIAN’S THEORY ON THE FORMATION OF SKIN PATTERNS.