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Can Giant Robots Successfully Mine the Mile-Deep Seafloor? The economic collapse threatens the long-held dream of underwater mining. by Robert Kunzig From the May 2009 issue, published online May 4, 2009 Metal-rich "smoke" billows from a volcanic vent on the seafloor near the Galápagos Islands UCSB/Univ S Carolina/NOAA/WHOIAfter September 11, 2001, David Heydon was a dreamer in need of a dream, an...
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The Man Who Found Quarks and Made Sense of the Universe Murray Gell-Mann had a smash success with particles, notorious dustups with Feynman, and a missed opportunity with Einstein. by Susan Kruglinski; photography by Jamey Stillings From the April 2009 issue, published online March 17, 2009It is no accident that the quark—the building block of protons and neutrons and, by extension, of you and eve...
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Mom and Dad Are Fighting in Your Genes—and in Your Brain Our brains may contain a battle of the sexes that can cause schizophrenia and autism. by Carl Zimmer From the December 2008 issue, published online November 10, 2008 iStockphotoSometimes the best way to learn how the brain works is to watch what happens when it goes awry. When one part—a clump of neurons or a brain-building gene—doesn’t do w...
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3 Great Uses of Twitter, According to Cofounder Jack Dorsey 1) Throwing parties 2) Lifeline during a terrorist attack 3) Staying connected with mom by Boonsri Dickinson ("@boonspoon" on Twitter) From the May 2009 issue, published online April 22, 2009Photo Gabriela HasbunSee DISCOVER's recent article "Twitter's Greatest Hits—and Greatest Misses."Jack Dorsey was arriving in New York and felt like p...
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How Google Is Making Us Smarter Humans are "natural-born cyborgs," and the Internet is our giant "extended mind." by Carl Zimmer From the February 2009 issue, published online January 15, 2009 Our minds are under attack. At least that’s what I keep hearing these days. Thumbing away at our text messages, we are becoming illiterate. (Or is that illiter8?) Blogs make us coarse, YouTube makes us shall...
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