In der aktuellen Ausgabe von Discover

• THE LATEST NEWS AND NOTES
  ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SPEAKS: VOICE REPLICATION • THE SECRETS OF EYE CONTACT • SQUISHY-FOOTED DINOSAURS • IRREGULAR SLEEP RISKS FOR SHIFT WORKERS •
• ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IS CHANGING POP CULTURE
  AI VOICE REPLICATION IS RESTORING JAMES EARL JONES’ VOICE (AND MORE) FOR A SLEW OF STAR WARS PROJECTS. HERE’S HOW THE TECHNOLOGY WORKS — AND A FEW OF THE ETHICAL QUAGMIRES IT RAISES.
• The Power of Eye Contact
  NEUROLOGISTS HAVE ONLY RECENTLY PEERED INTO THE BRAINS OF TWO PEOPLE ENGAGING IN EYE CONTACT. PRELIMINARY FINDINGS SHOW UNIQUE SYNCHRONICITY IN KEY REGIONS.
• Walking on Air
  PALEONTOLOGISTS SAY SAUROPODS, THE LARGEST AND HEAVIEST DINOSAURS TO EVER ROAM EARTH, HAD SQUISHY FEET.
• IRREGULAR SLEEP SCHEDULES CAN POSE HEALTH RISKS
  SHIFT WORKERS ARE AT RISK OF DEVELOPING SHIFT WORK DISORDER, WHICH CAN SERIOUSLY IMPACT PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH.
• The Villain With a Thousand Faces
  HE DIDN’T SEEM LIKE HE WAS IN DANGER. BUT A COLD SWEAT AND SHORTNESS OF BREATH WERE THE FIRST SIGNS THAT THIS 60-YEAR-OLD WAS IN SERIOUS TROUBLE.
• Down on the Digital Farm
  SILICON MEETS SOIL AS TODAY’S FARMERS LEVERAGE POWERFUL TECHNOLOGY TO SOW AND SAVE THEIR CROPS.
• BLUE MARBLE, RED PLANET
  Before he fell to his death in the Antarctic mountains, microbiologist Wolf Vishniac helped pioneer the search for life in extreme environments. Today, his work lives on in our quest to detect life on Mars.
• DEFINING LIFE
  From the tallest tree to the tiniest bacterium, all living things share some common ground. They’re all made of cells, they all take in and use energy from their environment, they’re all capable of reproducing themselves, and they all grow and evolve.
• FAR AWAY
  ON THE WORLD’S MOST REMOTE INHABITED ISLAND, THE CONNECTION BETWEEN CONSERVATION AND SURVIVAL IS IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE.
• MAKING WAVES
  A CENTURY AFTER EINSTEIN PREDICTED THE OUTCOME FROM A BLACK HOLE COLLISION, FRANS PRETORIUS HELPED PAVE THE WAY FOR THE ACTUAL DISCOVERY OF THE RIPPLES THAT WOULD EXPAND OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE UNIVERSE
• The Archaeology of Flavor
  WE CAN OFTEN TELL WHAT ANCIENT PEOPLES ATE BY STUDYING THE EVIDENCE OF RAW INGREDIENTS THEY LEFT BEHIND. BUT THERE’S NO FOSSIL RECORD FOR FLAVOR — SO HOW CAN WE LEARN HOW A LONG-AGO LUNCH MAY HAVE TASTED?
• Dream Weavers
  NEW TECHNOLOGY IS TAKING RESEARCHERS — AND ADVERTISERS — INTO BARELY CHARTED TERRAIN: YOUR SLEEPING MIND.