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11,607 articles from Discovery

• SUNDAY 20. FEBRUARY, 2011
• 23:34 A Universe Stranger Than We Can't Imagine

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  Ever looked up at the night sky and wondered: What is up there?  

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• 23:27 Inkjet Printers Inspire Scientists to Make Skin

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  Donor cells could be cultured and then sprayed layer-by-layer to print "skin."  

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• 05:17 Milky Way Stuffed with 50 Billion Alien Worlds

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  Using Kepler observations, an estimate of the number of exoplanets populating our galaxy has been made.  

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• 01:17 The Outfall of a Helium-3 Crisis

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  A shortage of a specific type of helium has caused a physics and engineering scramble across the United States.  

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• SATURDAY 19. FEBRUARY, 2011
• 23:49 Modern Society Threatened by Solar Storms

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  The Earth just dodged a solar bullet, but what about next time? Sensitive technology could be mankind's Achilles heel.  

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• 01:01 Dogs Probably Feel Sorry For Us

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  Dogs appear to empathize with us, to the point that some therapy dogs even seem to take on the emotions of their sick or distressed human charges.  

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• FRIDAY 18. FEBRUARY, 2011
• 22:40 Exoplanet Weather Forecast: Hot and Nasty

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  New clues are being found as to how violent exoplanetary atmospheres can be.  

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• 21:49 Ohio Ups Ante for Shuttle Retirement Home

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  Battles are brewing for where the retiring space shuttles should be located.  

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• 20:39 What's Your 'Appitype'?

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  Take the online quiz and see how a Cornell researcher would categorize your app usage.  

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• 20:21 Watchout For Spring Floods

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  National Weather Service forecasters are warning the upper Midwest of another year of major Spring flooding is on the way.  

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• 20:07 Friday News Feedbag for Friday, February 18, 2011!

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  On this week's Friday News Feedbag, we talk to Kory Stamper, an Associate Editor at Merriam-Webster about how the modern English language came to be. And what makes it so difficult to learn. Here's a clip of Kory discussing the ...  

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• 19:58 Fewer Big Fish in the Sea

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  Overfishing has culled larger fish from the world's oceans, leaving smaller fish to thrive.  

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• 19:45 Plants In Nuked Soil: Less Talking, More Growing

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  Unlike birds, plants are doing fine in Chernobyl despite the high radiation level of the soil.  

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• 18:46 Device Detonates Roadside Bombs Remotely

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  Electromagnetic pulses can detonate explosives from out of harm's reach.  

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• 18:23 Siberia's Lake Baikal Feeling the Heat

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  Three generations of Russian scientists have been keeping track of the world's largest and deepest lake and they're findings are showing some surprising climate change connections.  

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• 18:22 Reporter's Gibberish Reveals Migraine's Complexity

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  Serene Branson's odd Grammy night appearance is linked to a migraine -- revealing how complicated the condition can be.  

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• 17:56 Stretching Before Runs May Not Stave Off Injury

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  Stretching may not be the best way to enhance athletic performance and reduce injury, research concludes.  

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• 16:10 Investigation Clears Toyota Electronics in Crashes

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  A year after runaway Toyotas scared the country, a government report clears faulty electronics.  

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• 14:41 Primitive Dinosaur Found in Antarctic Mountains

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  Fossils of the fabrosaur, about 190 million years old, were found at 12,500 feet elevation.  

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• 07:47 X PRIZE Lunar Race Lures 29 Contenders

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  Registration for a $30 million competition to land a spacecraft on the moon is closed, with a total of 29 teams officially in the running.  

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• 07:26 You Spin Me Round Like a Rotating Black Hole

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  Could spinning black holes be detected by the light they're twisting? If Einstein was right, then yes.  

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• 00:01 Monster Solar Flare Jams Radio Signals

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  The recent X-class eruption on the sun caused disruption to radio communications across southern China.  

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• THURSDAY 17. FEBRUARY, 2011
• 23:53 BP Spill Taints Mental Health, Too

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  Although the environmental impacts of the spill are considerable, scientists still know little about the disaster's effects on mental health.  

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• 23:00 Black Bear Hibernation Mystery

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  Bears can slow their metabolic rates far more than their body temperatures would predict.  

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• 21:51 Is This The End of Antarctic Whaling?

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  Japan announces it is "suspending" this year's Antarctic whaling. Is it in fact ending it - and not just this year, but for good?  

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