Discover Magazine: Today’s Top Stories

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TODAY’S TOP STORIES

PLANET EARTHSearching for the Ghost Orchids of the Everglades

Clinging to survival in shrinking swamps, ghost orchids are so elusive that their pollinators have remained unknown—until now.

• THE SCIENCESPhysics Smackdown, Part III: Roger Penrose and Robert Crease Weigh In
• MINDCan We Inherit Alzheimer’s From Our Parents?
• THE SCIENCESMove over Graphene: Next-Gen 2D Materials Could Revolutionize Technology
• THE SCIENCESThese So-Called ‘Super-Puff’ Worlds Could Be Exoplanets with Rings

THE SCIENCES10 Science Gifts People Will Actually Want for Christmas

MINDThe Psychological Benefits of Thanksgiving Rituals

PLANET EARTHFor the First Time, Scientists Record the Slow Beat of a Blue Whale’s Heart

THE SCIENCESQuantum Physics is No More Mysterious Than Crossing the Street: A Conversation with Chris Fuchs

THE SCIENCES6 Ways to Dive Into the Science of Thanksgiving

MINDParkinson’s Patients are Mysteriously Losing the Ability to Swim After Treatment

ENVIRONMENTOnce We Hit Climate ‘Tipping Points’ There May Be No Going Back

THE SCIENCESA New Method of Hunting Nearby Black Holes Turns up a Monster

DECEMBER

Mountain Lions Don’t Love La La Land

Degrees of Separation: Hot Planets, Trillions of Cigarette Butts and More

Why Babies Are So Cute — And Why We React the Way We Do

What is Dark Matter Made Of? These Are the Top Candidates

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ENVIRONMENTScientists Just Created a Bacteria That Eats CO2 to Reduce Greenhouse Gases

THE SCIENCESA Brief History of Celebrating Thanksgiving in Space

MINDWhat Causes Our Brains to Age?

HEALTHWhy Some People Love the Smell of Gasoline

PLANET EARTHThese Ice Age Humans Somehow Survived North of the Arctic Circle

THE SCIENCESAstronomers Think Earth Recently Destroyed One of its Own Minimoons

HEALTHThe ‘Sweating Disease’ That Swept Across England 500 Years Ago is Still a Medical Mystery

THE SCIENCESWhat if the Moon Disappeared Tomorrow?

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