October 2017 Discover

Precision movement • Digital and analog timekeeping • LED subdials • Stainless steel crown, caseback & bracelet Dual time z ...

22 DISCOVERMAGAZINE.COM FROM TOP: PICTUREPARTNERS/SHUTTERSTOCK; CARLSBERG BREWERIES A/S; ALISON MACKEY/DISCOVER → Johannes Schmi ...

the eels is hard because the tags are cumbersome for the eels. They’re also expensive, so scientists can only buy so many. NO. 2 ...

24 DISCOVERMAGAZINE.COM CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: HEATHER PERRY/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE; STAN HONDA/GETTY IMAGES; ROBERT ALE ...

“Cell phones have gotten so small, I can barely dial mine.” Not the Jitterbug® Flip. It features a large keypad for easier diali ...

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October 2017^ DISCOVER^27 I ’m lying on my back in the tunnel of an MRI scanner, my skull immobilized in a head coil, which look ...

28 DISCOVERMAGAZINE.COM They are interested in the brain’s connectivity. This is all part of a UCLA study of the human con- nect ...

October 2017^ DISCOVER^29 mental failing. MRI scans suggest that structural and functional connectivity has gone haywire. Orderl ...

30 DISCOVERMAGAZINE.COM SCIENCE SOURCE reflecting the high, low and middle responses. The spec- trum will show all of us aging “ ...

October 2017^ DISCOVER^31 TOP: COURTESY JEFF WHEELWRIGHT. BOTTOM: ROBERT FRIEDLAND/SCIENCE SOURCE the inner curvature and their ...

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October 2017^ DISCOVER^33 BRYAN CHRISTIE DESIGN K  ris Boesen’s life changed in an instant. In March 2016, he was driving down a ...

34 DISCOVERMAGAZINE.COM THIS PAGE FROM TOP: RICHARD CARRASCO/KECK MEDICINE OF USC; GREG IGER/KECK MEDICINE OF USC. OPPOSITE: SOP ...

You’re not going to go around collecting aborted fetuses for thousands of patients.” And although using fetal stem cells wasn’t ...

LEFT: DAVID ZENTZ. RIGHT: STEVE ZYLIUS/UC-IRVINE COMMUNICATIONS act like embryonic stem cells. Researchers called them induced p ...

October 2017^ DISCOVER^37 MARK RIGHTMIRE across the street and navigate her cozy art deco-style apartment with surprising noncha ...

38 DISCOVERMAGAZINE.COM FROM LEFT: STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE; COURTESY OF SONIA COONTZ; RICHARD CARRASCO/KECK MEDIC ...

October 2017^ DISCOVER^39 NEAL SCOLDING/SCIENCE SOURCE This type of stem cell, called an oligodendrocyte progenitor cell, is fou ...

40 DISCOVERMAGAZINE.COM More than 400 pendants hang from the primary cord of a khipu, an example of the complex record-keeping s ...