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Discover Magazine will amaze you, enlighten you, and open your eyes to the awe and wonder of science and technology. Discover reveals secrets, solves mysteries, and debunks old myths. Discover shares new findings and shows you what makes our universe tick.

EXTRAORDINARY EGYPT • A ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME JOURNEY INTO THE ANCIENT WORLD OF THE PHARAOHS

The Good, the Bad, and the AI

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THE LATEST NEWS AND NOTES • DINO DINNERS • TAKING THE BITE OUT OF SNAKE TOXINS • HOW TO BREAK THE LAWS OF PHYSICS

T. Rex Dined on Huge, Plant-Eating Dinosaurs • THESE FEARSOME PREDATORS DEVOURED MASSIVE HERBIVORES AND JUVENILE DINOSAURS, AND EVEN ENGAGED IN CANNIBALISM.

NEW ANTIVENOM KNOCKS OUT WIDE RANGE OF SNAKE TOXINS

CAN THE LAWS OF PHYSICS BE BROKEN? • OLD LAWS OF PHYSICS HAVE BEEN SHATTERED BEFORE, AND NEW LAWS OF PHYSICS MAY BE AT RISK OF BREAKING TODAY.

When Joy Leads to Heartbreak • THIS NORMALLY SPRIGHTLY 90-YEAR-OLD WENT FROM A FAMILY REUNION TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM IN A MATTER OF HOURS, STRUGGLING TO BREATHE AND FEELING LIKE HER CHEST WAS ABOUT TO IMPLODE. ALL SIGNS POINTED TO A DIRE HEART ISSUE.

WE WANT TO HEAR YOUR THOUGHTS • NEW BRAIN-CODING TECHNOLOGY brings us one step closer to mind reading.

THE WORLD WIDE DEAD • THOSE WHO SPEND THEIR LIVES ON THE INTERNET COULD SPEND THEIR DEATHS THERE, TOO. YET OUR DIGITAL FOOTPRINTS AREN’T AS PERMANENT AS THEY SEEM, AND SCHOLARS AND SCIENTISTS SAY THAT’S A PROBLEM.

HOW TO PREPARE YOUR DIGITAL LEGACY

REDESIGNING DEATH

MY FRIEND THECHATBOT • ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IS NOT CONSCIOUS, yet people still talk to it as if it were. What does that say about human nature?

READING THE ROCKS • RECONSTRUCTING ONE OF THE LARGEST ERUPTIONS IN RECORDED HUMAN HISTORY, A VETERAN VOLCANOLOGIST RECOUNTS HER TRAVELS ON GREECE’S SANTORINI, AND RECALLS HER FIRST FIELD VOLCANOLOGY LESSON.

Fossils Cast in Iron • ECHOES OF A LOST AUSTRALIAN RAINFOREST REVERBERATE IN RUSTY RED ROCKS, AND MAY HINT AT THE REPERCUSSIONS OF CLIMATE CHANGE.

CREEPY CRAWLY CASE STUDY

A Dark War and a Bright Sky • FROM GREAT LEADERS TO GREAT COMETS, ASTRONOMY PLAYED A CRUCIAL ROLE IN THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR.

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