Author Vishay SinghPosted on Categories Discover Magazine
The auto industry had the Fords, oil had the Rockefellers, and politics had the Kennedys. Science, too, has its legacy lineages. ...read more
Author Vishay SinghPosted on Categories Discover Magazine
They learn. They remember. They make decisions. ...read more
Author Vishay SinghPosted on Categories Discover Magazine
Quantum physics may be well understood, but scientists still don’t agree on what it means. ...read more
Author Vishay SinghPosted on Categories Discover Magazine
The tools researchers use to track their scaly subjects. ...read more
Author Vishay SinghPosted on Categories Discover Magazine
In 1842, English anatomist Richard Owen proposed the term dinosauria for the strange animal fossils he and colleagues had begun to study. Owen drew from ancient Greek to create the word: deinos, meaning “terrible” in the awesome-to-behold sense, and sauros, “reptile” or “lizard.” The truth is, those early paleontologists — and generations of their successors — got those terrible lizards, well, terribly wrong: T. rex as a tail-dragging lunk, tank-li ...read more