Discover Magazine

Discover is a science magazine aimed at a general audience, which first hit the shelves in October 1980, originally published by Time Inc. Since 2010, it has been under the ownership of Kalmbach Publishing.

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An Assassinated Priest's Cold Case Is Solved After 700 Years, Likely as Vengeance

2 days ago | discovermagazine.com | Monica Cull

Espionage, sex, public humiliation, murder - these may sound like tropes straight out of Game of Thrones , but they're actually all elements of a nearly 700-year-old cold case in England. After analyzing Medieval letters and records, a research team from the Cambridge University Institute of Criminology's Medieval Murder Maps project may have found the killer of a priest. However, this priest may not have been so innocent.
Early Humans May Have Used Fires to Smoke Meat One Million Years Ago

2 days ago | discovermagazine.com | Sam Walters

The Human History of Fire Burnt Fallow Deer Bones from Qesem Cave. Qesem Cave Project. (Image Credit: Tel Aviv University)Humans have used fire for a long time. In fact, the traces of fire found at archeological sites suggest that human fire use started around a million years ago or more, though that use wasn't widespread until later, around 400,000 years ago.
How Light-Controlled Bacteria Could Tackle the Problem of Antibiotic Resistance

3 days ago | discovermagazine.com | Sam Walters

Bacteria wouldn't be so bad if we could tell them what to do. "Stop spreading! Stop sticking together! Stop fending off our antibiotics!" A new method is starting to allow scientists to do just that, letting them use light to control certain functions of bacteria. Bacteria are behind a variety of diseases, from strep to staph to pneumonia and meningitis, and they attack our bodies in a variety of ways, as well, including through the production of toxins that damage and disrupt our cells.
AI Reveals Dead Sea Scrolls May Be Older Than Previously Thought

3 days ago | discovermagazine.com | Monica Cull

Before now, one of the few ways to date the Dead Sea Scrolls was through palaeography (the study of handwriting) and radiocarbon dating. These methods place the age of the scrolls somewhere between the 3rd century B.C.E. and the 2nd century C.E. But a new AI date-prediction model may provide a more accurate date for the famous Dead Sea Scrolls. After using this new model, called Enoch, researchers have determined that the Dead Sea Scrolls may actually be older than previously thought.
We May Now Know Why an Ancient, Hippo-Sized Wombat and Other Megafauna Went Extinct

4 days ago | discovermagazine.com | Monica Cull

Identifying prehistoric Australian megafauna from fossils may have gotten easier thanks to collagen peptide markers. These peptides can help researchers distinguish different animal genera and perhaps even species.
South America's First Hunter-Gatherers Appeared, Then Unusually Disappeared 2,000 Years Ago

5 days ago | discovermagazine.com | Sam Walters

Recent research has finally started to show how humans first arrived in South America. Indeed, these studies have revealed that humans settled the continent from the north, having reached the region through the Isthmus of Panama - the thin strip of land that connects North and South America. "Genetic studies on ancient and present-day Indigenous populations have substantially contributed to the understanding of the settlement of the Americas," the authors of the study stated.
Were Hominins in Europe 6 Million Years Ago? Footprint Find Sparks Debate

5 days ago | discovermagazine.com | Joshua Learn

Footprints that stroll through a patchy area of Grecian beach 6 million years ago has caused researchers to rethink the timeline of hominin presence outside of Africa. "These are perfectly [obvious] footprints," says Per Ahlberg, a paleontologist at Uppsala University in Sweden. If these are indeed footprints, then that would put hominins outside of Africa 4 million years before Homo erectus , which researchers have traditionally believed began to emigrate into Asia about 2 million years ago.
Black Death Bacterium Evolved to be Less Aggressive to Kill Victims Slowly

1 week ago | discovermagazine.com | Sam Walters

A new study in suggests that changes in a gene in Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes plague, could've added to the length of two plague pandemics, including the pandemic that started with the "Black Death." The study suggests that less virulent plague bacteria could've caused longer plague pandemics - thanks to the fact that infected rodents lived (and spread plague) for longer periods of time before dying from their infections. The bacterium Y.
Birds Nested Alongside Dinosaurs in Alaska 73 Million Years Ago

1 week ago | discovermagazine.com | Sam Walters

For a few months of the year, the Alaskan Arctic becomes flooded with birds. From shorebirds to waterfowl, these avians arrive in the spring to breed, nest, and raise their young, and to take advantage of the ample plants and prey (invertebrates and other animals) that thrive in Alaska's short summers. They do it today, and they did it around 73 million years ago, too.
Campi Flegrei Had a Massive Eruption 40,000 Years Ago

1 week ago | discovermagazine.com | Monica Cull

The Campi Flegrei (the Phlegraean Fields) area in Italy is no stranger to volcanic activity. One of the largest eruptions in the area took place around 40,000 years ago, covering the area in ash and blasting open a caldera 9 miles wide. A recent study in discusses another massive volcanic eruption that occurred in the area 109,000 years ago, known as Maddaloni/X-6.