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Learn how climate change is the likely culprit behind a 1,500-foot tsunami that narrowly avoided disaster at a popular tourist location in Alaska. Spending an early morning watching the sun rise over ...

Sam Walters is the Associate Editor - Magazine Lead at Discover Magazine. For Discover’s website, Sam covers topics including archaeology, paleontology, ecology, and evolution, along with an ...

Jack Knudson is an Associate Editor for Discover Magazine. He specializes in writing articles that cover topics about space exploration, ancient humans, animal behavior, sustainability, and the ...

Discover the top stories from July 11 to July 17, 2026, including new details about the effects of long COVID and ​an elusive ...

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Learn how landslides detected on Pluto for the first time reveal the active geologic processes that shape the dwarf planet's surface. Landslides cause a lot of chaos on Earth, as rocks and other ...

Learn why tracking cyclosporiasis is tedious work, as symptoms appear late and technology and funding are struggling to catch up. The cyclosporiasis outbreak causing explosive diarrhea and other ...

Learn how the IUCN added emperor penguins to the Red List as climate change drives sea ice loss and could cut their population in half by 2080. If you are anything like me, you’ve watched March of the ...