DISCOVER
INTO THE RAGING SUN
PROBE CHASES SOLAR STORMS
Inside:
How to Make Anything
Disappear -
Invisibility cloaks are the least
of it: Manipulating the laws of
optics could transform almost
every modern technology.
By Fred Hapgood
The Star Diver:
A new NASA probe will venture
to within 4 million miles of the
sun to plumb the mysteries of
its fierce magnetic storms.
By Stephen Ornes
Experimental Man:
A human guinea pig tests his
sensitivity to toxins and explores
the role our genes play in
determining it
By David Ewing Duncan
How to
Build a Dinosaur:
A top paleontologist asks: Can
we turn back the evolutionary
clock and make a dinosaur out
of a chicken embryo?
By Jack Homer and
James Gorman
Smart Drugs:
Beyond Ritalin: New pills to
boost concentration, memory,
and alertness are just around
the corner.
By Sherry Baker
Fog Forests:
In Chile's coastal rain forests,
trees get nutrients from fog.
By Michael Tennesen
DISCOVER Interview:
Murray Gell-Mann
A primer on particles (and
thoughts on Einstein) from the
man who discovered the quark.
By Susan Kruglinski
= On the Cover
Superheated plasma clouds
erupt from the sun in this •
SOHO/NASA image.
Contents April 2009
Contributors 4
Letters 5
Data 6
A bat's night flight, new life fo
old atom smashers, the next
superbug, asteroid hunting,
the brain-scan controversy,
fluorescent fish, and more.
.3
Five Questions for
Emma Stokes 17
The field biologist on saving
•tigers in Asia, finding moun-
• tain gorillas in Africa, and the
of living in Phnom Penh.
M1 joys
Hot Science 1
Must-see books, films, DVDs,
and TV (good-bye, Galactica).
Peter Bagge's History
of Science 20
You say you want a revolution?
Joseph Priestley hunts for an
elusive fifth element.
Think Tech 22
Cool auto gear, including a
versatile in-dash computer.
By Stephen Cass
Future Tech 24
A hybrid vehicle that recharges
on household current.
By Stephen Cass
The Brain 26
Does anesthesia contain the
secret to consciousness?
By Carl Zimmer
Vital Signs 30
Excess body hair, weight
gain, agitation—unraveling an
unusual set of symptoms.
By Robert Norman
20 Things You Didn't
5 Know About Money 8o
By Jason Stahl
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