New York State Museum. First Mastodon Discovery in over 11 Years: Stunning Prehistoric Find UnEarthed in Orange County, New York Before joining Discover Magazine, Paul Smaglik spent over 20 years as a ...

It’s easy to forget that humans are primates, but indeed we are. Taxonomic classification puts humans in the order Primates (apes, monkeys, and lemurs) and in the family Hominidae (great apes), which, ...

Sara Novak is a science journalist based in South Carolina. In addition to writing for Discover, her work appears in Scientific American, Popular Science, New Scientist, Sierra Magazine, Astronomy ...

X-rays pass easily through biological materials to provide unprecedented insight into the internal structure of everything from biological structures in living cells to broken bones in damaged bodies.

It looked sort of like a 3-foot-long dog — but without ears or fur. Discover the Gorgonopsian Gorgonopsians lived between 270 million years and 250 million years ago and are classified as synapsids, ...

An estimated 28 probable graves were identified at the seventh American president’s former property, called the Hermitage Olatunji Osho-Williams Staff Contributor The Hermitage in Nashville is ...

NASA is still arguably the biggest player in space, but they don’t accomplish this alone. The agency makes use of various rockets built by companies like Northrop Grumman, the United Launch Alliance, ...

A graduate of UW-Whitewater, Monica Cull wrote for several organizations, including one that focused on bees and the natural world, before coming to Discover Magazine. Her current work also appears on ...

Researchers at industrial cybersecurity provider Claroty have discovered a new tool nation-state cyber threat actors use to attack civilian critical infrastructure. Team82, Claroty’s threat ...

If you’re swimming across a thriving coral reef, you may mistakenly believe you floated upon a giant underwater human brain. Brain coral is a hard coral, also known as a stony coral or reef builder.

A graduate of UW-Whitewater, Monica Cull wrote for several organizations, including one that focused on bees and the natural world, before coming to Discover Magazine. Her current work also appears on ...

Before joining Discover Magazine, Paul Smaglik spent over 20 years as a science journalist, specializing in U.S. life science policy and global scientific career issues. He began his career in ...