2018-12-01_Discover

40 DISCOVERMAGAZINE.COM how best to test a treatment platform that can be used everywhere. “We’re trying to lay the groundwork f ...

$ December 2018^ DISCOVER^41 ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE A Steady Uptick ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE is the 6th leading cause of death in the Un ...

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A Magnetic Quest For centuries, physicists have hunted for particles with a single north or south pole. They may be closer than ...

44 DISCOVERMAGAZINE.COM RICHARD SOLUK A s a child, James Pinfold adored magnets. He recalls marveling at the invisible force tha ...

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46 DISCOVERMAGAZINE.COM MAXIMILIEN BRICE/CERN MoEDAL DETECTOR Rajantie’s irst name, Arttu, is pronounced like the Star Wars char ...

December 2018^ DISCOVER^47 PIERRE AUGER OBSER VATORY (2) sustained electric current. “There’s no way to fake that signal of a tr ...

48 DISCOVERMAGAZINE.COM way up by using the observatory’s primary cosmic ray detectors: a horde of nearly 1,700 water-illed tank ...

December 2018^ DISCOVER^49 with its constituent quarks transforming into other particle types including positrons, which can gen ...

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December 2018^ DISCOVER^51 How a pitched chemical battle in our home unwittingly creates a playground for pests. BY ROB DUNN ILL ...

You can accept that many of the insect species around you are interesting, poorly studied and more likely to help control pests ...

December 2018^ DISCOVER^53 By 1854, the insect was in New York City. It now lives from Alaska to Antarctica, having moved with p ...

54 DISCOVERMAGAZINE.COM Steyn gained a key insight from The Afrikaans Children’s Encyclopedia, perhaps while read- ing it to his ...

December 2018^ DISCOVER^55 an egg case with a hole in it, the case has likely birthed wasps rather than roaches. And those wasps ...

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