Learn why socializing, especially around the holidays, can leave you feeling a bit down. www.discovermagazine.com/post-party-d...

Learn how in just six months, the NASA team has mapped the entire universe in 102 colors. www.discovermagazine.com/nasa-s-color...

Learn more about Saturn's largest moon, Titan, and the mysteries that lurk beneath its icy surface. www.discovermagazine.com/titan-s-subt...

Learn more about the common cold, the viruses that cause it, and why it’s so difficult to find a vaccine for it. www.discovermagazine.com/scientists-a...

Learn why Yellowstone mysteriously does not produce sulfur dioxide, and what it means for volcanic unrest. www.discovermagazine.com/yellowstone-...

Learn more about piranhas, why they have such a powerful bite, and why there are so many misconceptions around them. www.discovermagazine.com/the-tiny-bla...

Learn more about the hidden molecules uncovered in animal fossils from an ancient human site, and the new view they give us of that ancient world. www.discovermagazine.com/hidden-molec...

Learn how the brain weighs emotional strain when deciding whether to seek information — or shut it out. www.discovermagazine.com/why-we-somet...

Learn more about the Vikings, their lifestyle, and where the stereotypical horned helmet originated from. www.discovermagazine.com/no-vikings-d...

Learn how brain recordings reveal a distinct state in which conscious awareness briefly drops out — even while people remain awake. www.discovermagazine.com/when-the-min...

Learn more about “thirdhand smoke” and how it keeps polluting homes, and your lungs, long after smoking stops. www.discovermagazine.com/thirdhand-sm...

What's the size of the Milky Way galaxy? Learn how, depending on your definition, the size can change. www.discovermagazine.com/the-size-of-...

Learn why killer whales sometimes wear dead salmon on their heads, and what that might mean. www.discovermagazine.com/those-orcas-...

Learn why playing classic video games, like Super Mario Bros. and Yoshi, can help young adults fight burnout and chronic stress. www.discovermagazine.com/childhood-ga...

Learn how rare fossil feathers preserved molting patterns, revealing new findings of dinosaur flight. www.discovermagazine.com/160-million-...

Learn more about these tiny robots that can alter their surroundings and monitor our health. www.discovermagazine.com/light-powers...

Learn more about the strong and intricate bonds dolphins have that help keep them more youthful. www.discovermagazine.com/like-kinderg...

Learn more about the large phytoplankton bloom that occurs each year in a “biological desert.” www.discovermagazine.com/colorful-phy...

Learn how environmental constraints and a lack of soil led ancient bees to reuse fossil cavities in a Caribbean cave, leaving the first known evidence of this behavior. www.discovermagazine.com/ancient-bees...

Learn how a new analysis challenges the traditional classifications for ‘Little Foot,’ a famous fossil hominin from South Africa. www.discovermagazine.com/the-mysterio...

Learn about new earthquake and satellite data that has revealed the Iberian Peninsula is slowly on the move. www.discovermagazine.com/colliding-te...

Do you really eat spiders in your sleep? Thankfully, no. Researchers explain why and how we’d know if we were swallowing spiders. www.discovermagazine.com/humans-don-t...

Learn how rats with naturally high hormone levels chose to chill out by seeking puffs of cannabis vapor. www.discovermagazine.com/highly-stres...

The largest dietary study comparing children’s diets shows that eating a vegetarian and vegan diet can work well for growing children, provided families stay on top of critical nutrients. www.discovermagazine.com/vegetarian-a...

Learn what the first maps of the sun's atmospheric boundary reveal about solar wind and its escape into space. www.discovermagazine.com/first-map-of...

Learn more about nanoplastics and how easily they can get into the bloodstream of zebrafish, resulting in buildup in the brain and reproductive organs. www.discovermagazine.com/zebrafish-ca...

Learn how hunger affects mood only when people consciously feel it — not simply when energy levels drop. www.discovermagazine.com/why-being-ha...

Learn how motion sensors and GPS tracking uncovered how raccoons weigh risk against reward. www.discovermagazine.com/raccoons-hav...

Learn how chemical clues reveal a mosasaur was hunting in freshwater rivers as the Cretaceous seaway receded. www.discovermagazine.com/a-marine-pre...

Learn more about how researchers can take evidence from the past to better shape our idea of what Neanderthals looked like. www.discovermagazine.com/from-dna-to-...

Learn how resident orcas collaborate with local dolphins to hunt salmon while offering protection for their smaller cousins in return. www.discovermagazine.com/in-a-first-w...

Learn why purrs say more about a cat's identity than its meows, and how domestication forever changed the way cats communicate with their owners. www.discovermagazine.com/purrs-convey...

Learn the untold story of the hammock, and how it was used by both Indigenous cultures and European colonizers. www.discovermagazine.com/your-backyar...

Learn how the discovery of a young planet orbiting two suns is revealing how worlds form and survive in binary star systems. www.discovermagazine.com/a-tatooine-l...

Learn more about the creation of fire, and how new artifacts show that fire was used tens of thousands of years earlier than previously believed. www.discovermagazine.com/over-400-000...

Meet Salwasiren qatarensis, a small, ancient sea cow species whose fossils were found in Qatar, in one of the world’s biggest marine mammal bonebeds. www.discovermagazine.com/as-an-ancien...

Learn more about brown dwarfs, the cosmic misfits that blur the line between planet and star. www.discovermagazine.com/why-brown-dw...

Learn more about mammal monogamy rates, which support the theory that the primary mating pattern in Homo sapiens is monogamy. www.discovermagazine.com/humans-may-b...

Learn about the molecules and materials found in samples of asteroid Bennu, including sugars, space gum, and an abundance of stardust. www.discovermagazine.com/asteroid-ben...

Discover an ancient luxury shipwreck, complete with Greek graffiti, offering a rare glimpse into elite life on Alexandria’s waterways. www.discovermagazine.com/a-2-000-year...

Learn about the first evidence of the Bronze Age plague in a non-human host, found in a sheep bone from Russia. www.discovermagazine.com/4-000-year-o...

Learn how a major shift toward drought reshaped the Flores ecosystem and may have driven the hobbits to extinction. www.discovermagazine.com/the-early-hu...

Learn more about the supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 3783 and how its powerful blast is similar to our sun’s coronal mass ejections. www.discovermagazine.com/supermassive...

Learn how male bonobos use subtle behavioral and reproductive cues to pinpoint the fertile window, even when the usual swelling signal gives them almost no useful information. www.discovermagazine.com/bonobos-send...

Learn more about this next chapter for Discover Magazine. www.discovermagazine.com/a-more-refin...

With a late-rising crescent moon and early evening activity, this year’s Geminids offer some of the best viewing conditions, displaying bright, colorful streaks long before midnight. www.discovermagazine.com/geminid-mete...

Learn more about the science behind the belief that we can “see” better while driving when we turn the music down. www.discovermagazine.com/why-your-bra...

Learn about the latest NASA and ESA images of Comet 3I/ATLAS, showing its brightness and tails of dust and plasma. www.discovermagazine.com/new-snapshot...

The mystery of whether TRAPPIST-1e has an atmosphere capable of hosting life continues. www.discovermagazine.com/trappist-1e-...

Learn how researchers used Einstein’s theory of general relativity to create the most accurate simulations to date. www.discovermagazine.com/einstein-s-t...