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22 DISCOVERMAGAZINE.COM HUAN TRAN/GETTY IMAGES Making Sense of Mommy Brain A new mother wants to know if she’s losing her mind, ...

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E ach year, millions of buyers around the world secure American Eagle Silver Dollars — arguably the most widely collected silver ...

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January/February 2019^ DISCOVER^31 ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATE / GENETICS / HUMAN ORIGINS / FLORA & FAUNA / SPACE / ARCHAEOLOG ...

32 DISCOVERMAGAZINE.COM BACKGROUND GLOBE: GERHALD3D/TURBOSQUID. BEDROCK: ESA. SEAL: LARS BOEHME There’s still a window to alter ...

Eyes in the Sky January/February 2019^ DISCOVER^33 CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: ASSOCIATED PRESS; GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER; ESMEE ...

34 DISCOVERMAGAZINE.COM World Wakes to Plastic Perils Ever since plastics rose to popularity in the 1950s, they’ve become an int ...

Carbon Rising In May, an observatory in Hawaii measured Earth’s atmospheric carbon dioxide levels at 411 parts per million — the ...

36 DISCOVERMAGAZINE.COM MOLEKUUL/SCIENCE SOURCE GENETICS Researchers continue to wrangle with CRISPR while others debate the eth ...

January/February 2019^ DISCOVER^37 FROM TOP: MONICA SCHROEDER/SCIENCE SOURCE; SALK INSTITUTE; HANNAH GRUNWALD CRISPR’s New Targe ...

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January/February 2019^ DISCOVER^39 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY It’s All Relative Computational biologists have created the largest famil ...