Discovery Channel Magazine（ディスカバリーチャンネルマガジン） 発売日・バックナンバー

If you see or hear a story about invading aliens, don''t rush outside screaming. It may not be completely true ...

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・Medic Marine
In Bangladesh, there is not enough firm ground to build a hospital. So the doctors simply float in.

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・Cashed Out
Millions of dollars are dispensed every day by ATMs. How on earth do they do it?

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・Mountain Minders
Settling virgin lands is easy. Caring for them takes a lot of effort, but Andean pioneers are doing just that.

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・Sands of Time
In the Saudi Arabian desert stand amazing carved rock monuments, legacy of a long-gone race.

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・Feeling Groggy
Even if you don''t drink, you probably use alcohol. We crack open a bottle to find out what it does.

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・Nobel Sentiments
Jose Ramos-Horta, Nobel Prize Laureate if he has his way, Timor Leste will go supergreen.

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・Gnashers
Teeth bring a surprisingly large amount of data to the forensic dinner table.

It began as a casual interest in the world of the internet. It ended up as a crippling attack on top websites.

Raising the Bar
These geese fly higher than Everest, faster than most cars and do it all on a diet of barley, rice and wheat.

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Concrete
The second most-used substance on Earth can do a lot more than just make garden paths.

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Volcanic Saviour
If the scientists are right, volcanoes such as Pinatubo could help us in the fight against climate change.

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Play Time
Nine Nobel prizewinners have one thing in common ?as children, they all played with construction toys.

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Roman Runs
Excavating the toilets of Pompeii is providing a unique insight into the everyday lives of ancient peoples.

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Dingo Danger
Australia''s native dog isn''t the same as other wild dogs. Could it be that man helped it evolve?

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Peak Learning
Steep slopes and raging rainfall make getting to school much harder.

Can chimp- and lemur-spotters help save the animals they love to track down and photograph in the jungle?

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Little Gems
Rubies, sapphires and emeralds are not as swanky as diamonds, but they have their own unique culture.

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Handy Photos
Taking photos of false limbs may not sound very exciting, but it can have its own innate attraction.

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A Shade of Beauty
Myanmarese parasols have been handmade for generations in Pathein – all from natural materials..

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Big River
In 1866, the Mekong was as mysterious as the Nile. One brave Frenchman was determined to explore it.

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Going Homing
Despite tiny brains, pigeons can navigate astonishingly well. How do they do it? Theories abound …

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Animal Myths
Do elephants forget? Are March hares crazy? Do bats bump into things? Read on to find out the real truth.

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Snow Rider
Extreme skiing and BASE jumping are dangerous if you get it wrong. Almost deadly, in some cases.

Destination Mars

We’ve done the moon, now it’s time to go to Mars – but how? The distance, the speed, the remoteness and life support all make it hard.

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Fungus Fidelio
Want to get a world-class violin but can’t afford a million bucks? Buy a new one, add fungus and wait.

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Big in the City
In Thailand, many rural dwellers are moving to the city. And taking elephants.

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Rock It
Rock climbing is very demanding. Rock climbing then taking photos is extraordinarily demanding.

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Inside Track
The man who takes dead humans and makes sculptures out of them tells us how he does it.

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Freedom Flight
Israeli skies are often described as full of rockets and missiles. The truth is, birds are even more plentiful there.

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Paper Caper
Origami used to be a genteel Japanese tradition. These days it helps design high-tech gizmos for space.

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Osmosis
How to create power from just water. And some more water.

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Tree Hugger!
How one woman branched out, camped out and made plant history.

Al Haytham
The Iraqi theologian who first discovered optics

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Antarctic
Trapped in a storm on Antarcticas Blue Base 1

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Autofocus
The technology behind the way your camera focuses

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Carl Hodges
The pioneering innovator who builds saltwater farms

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Cuba
Skateboarding; the new sport on Havanas streets

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Fake drugs
Forensic experts use science to combat a deadly trade in fake drugs

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Habshis
Once fearless warriors they now live in poverty, while their traditions slip away

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Nest Gatherers
Brave Filipinos who make a living climbing deadly cliffs

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Tsunami
A victim tells how she has rebuilt her life

Survivors
Human beings can take terrible punishment and still stay alive.

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Kiribati
Kiribatis atolls and people face the prospect of losing their land to climate change.

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Honda Cub
Soichiro Honda designed a vehicle that changed the world and sold in millions.

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Turbojet
The aircraft engine that lets you hear your neighbours whisper when you fly A380.

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Wallace Line
Who on earth was Alfred Russel Wallace? The man who helped Darwin work out his theories on evolution.

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Fast& Furious
The Bagger 288 can excavate 240,000 tonnes of soil a day!

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Fact v Film
We ask the experts how Tom Cruise did in Valkyrie.

Big Wave Woman
Brazilian big-wave rider Maya Gabeira is taking on the boys ｨC and beating them at their own game.
By Andreas Tzortzis & Jeremy Torr

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lathrates - Fuel of the Future
In the global race for a renewable energy source, could methane hydrates be the answer we｡ｯre looking
for? By Daniel Weiss.

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he Hamsters
Meet the members of the world｡ｯs most exclusive motorcycle ｡ｰanti-club｡ｱ. By Derek Burnett

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he Long Walk
In 1941, Polish captive Witold Glinski escaped from a Siberian labour camp and began his 6,500km walk
to freedom. by John Dyson.

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arrot Men
The story of two men｡ｯs battle to save Bonaire｡ｯs endangered parrots. By Ted O｡ｯCallahan.

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an vs Technology
A series of stunning images capturing man｡ｯs dependency on, and fascination with, technology. By James Balog.

Whale Watching
The surprisingly sociable and extroverted gray whales of Baja California have a new best friend - us. But why?

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◆Pirate Wars
How high-tech equipment and highly trained marksmen are taking on the pirates at their own game.

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◆Industrial Scars
The way we live and consume is scarring our planet.

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◆Plate Tectonics
Piecing together the theory of plate tectonics, geologists understand how natural disasters occur - but many
questions remain.

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◆Bird Strike
With the number of bird strikes rising, experts are coming up with novel ways to avoid mid-air
collisions - and save lives.

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◆Industry Scars
Environmentalist J. Henry Fair is using his photographs to raise awareness of our impact on the
environment - with both shocking and stunning results.

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◆Cliff Diving
For spectators, watching divers plunge 25 metres at breathtaking speeds is an elegant sport.
For divers, it''s an adrenaline rush fuelled by fear.

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◆Green Military
How the US Army is using energy-saving methods to not only reduce the cost of war,
but also help protect the environment.

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◆Mangroves
They''ve been around for millions of years, but do you know how this complex ecosystem actually works?

Deep Divers

Why would a sane man subject himself to the kind of pressure
that squeezes his lungs to the size of oranges?
To break the world depth record for diving without scuba gear, that''''''''s why.
Shortly after we went to press, diver Herbert Nitsch first broke
Nery''''''''s constant weight record by a single meter on April 4,
when he dove to 114 meters.
Next, on April 11, he dove to 120 meters deep - both dives were at
Deans Blue Hole in the Bahamas. (More info at www.verticalblue.net/news/)

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◆Rescue Dogs
When caught in an avalanche, you have just minutes to live.
Thankfully, the powerful nose of a mountain rescue dog is there to search you out.
How do avalanches happen?
Every year millions of avalanches tumble down the sides of
mountain ranges around the world. The ingredients necessary
for avalanches are slopes over 28 degrees,
a snow load and a trigger.
Snow falls in different forms and creates layers in the snowpack
with differing densities.
If a softer layer becomes sandwiched between two, more dense,
layers a weakness is formed.
Imagine a stack of books on a slope with a layer of playing cards
between two of the books, eventually the load above the cards will
become too great and everything above the cards will slide down the hill.
Avalanches are the same.
The trigger for an avalanche can be natural or man made.
The load can become too much for the weak layer to bear whether
from increased snowfall, a blast from explosives, or the weight of a skier.
The collapse of the weak layer can start in a small isolated area
and move like a chain reaction over entire ridges.
When the mass of snow begins to slide, it starts as a
large slab then breaks up into a tumbling snow and air cloud accelerating
to speeds over 300km/h. Like most natural disasters,
avalanches are given size rankings based on their destructive potential.
Class 1 avalanches are small in nature and would be capable
of knocking over a skier and possibly burying them to the waist.
On the opposite end of the scale class 5 avalanches have massive destructive power
and could obliterate vast tracts of forest or entire towns.

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◆Tokyo Underground
More than 30 metres below central Tokyo, massive machines are burrowing out an
innovative road system built to ease congestion, cut pollution and reduce fuel
consumption.

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◆The Little Pilot
Famous across the world for his book The Little Prince, the French writer Antoine de
Saint-Exup¨|ry was also a daring, passionate and trailblazing pilot.

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◆The Hidden Planet
According to the calculations of investigative astrophysicists, our solar system
contains too little mass. Could it be that there is another planet circling the sun?

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◆The Penitentiary
When criminals were sentenced in Pennsylvania in the late 1800s, they knew they
wouldn''''''''t be physically punished. Instead, they''''''''d be forced to repent in one of the
world''''''''s most forbidding jails.

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◆Saving the Wall
The Great Wall of China is decaying significantly, thanks in part to careless visitors.
But traditional Chinese caretakers are keeping the faith - and the structure - safe.

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◆The Twitching Stick
Dowsers, diviners, water witches - all different names for specially gifted folk who
can detect water below ground. We ask Uncle Dick how he does it.

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◆Green Buildings
Most people assume cars are the world''''''''s worst polluters.
Not so - buildings are the real villains.
We look at how architects are trying to make the next generation of structures and cities cleaner.

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◆Lights, Camera, Action!
Doug Anderson from "Fight Quest" finds out that making a martial arts movie is harder than it looks - especially
while trying to execute flying kicks while strapped into a harness.

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◆ To Build a Beast
The world marvelled when Airbus Industrie launched the A380 superjumbo airliner. But few realised the
incredible challenges that had been overcome to construct the new queen of the skies.

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◆Wild in the City
Think of wildlife in big cities such as London, Sydney and Chicago and cocktail lounges and nightclubs come to mind.
But in the shadows and rooftop corners a different type of wildlife is thriving..

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◆Not What it Seems
Outwardly, the Swiss Alps appear calm and tranquil. But underneath many of the mountains is a vast network of tunnels
and bunkers, built to protect the Swiss people from invasion.

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◆Blazing the Biogas Trail
By turning pig poo and household waste into gas for cooking, lighting and heating, Chinese farmers are leading the
world in the recycling business.

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◆Space Crossing
If space is the final frontier, a desolate high-altitude desert in the US state of New Mexico could well be the launch pad.
Welcome to Spaceport America.

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◆Ancient Waters
Bali''s emerald rice terraces are a photographer''s dream. They are also home to the world''s oldest continuously used
irrigation system, run on a mix of religious, agricultural and social traditions.

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◆White Wedding
On the western edge of the Himalayas, enterprising Pakistani villagers "marry" male and female ice blocks and from
the union glaciers are born.

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◆Measuring Up
Making sure the world has standard measurements for everything is a big job. And maintaining accuracy can mean
going to extreme lengths..

Shark Rodeo

A team of Australian researchers is doing its bit to protect sharks by lassoing and tagging them - by hand!

・Eye on the Sky
High in the Chilean Andes, scientists are taking advantage of the clearest skies on earth and new image
combination techniques to build the most powerful telescopes ever.

・Living with Hidden Death
Laos was subjected to Vietnam War air raids that left behind millions of unexploded bombs.
Brave teams are slowly clearing the deadly legacy, but fatalities still occur, driven in part by poverty and necessity.

・Storm Surfers
Enormous storm-driven waves break with incredible fury on Dangerous Banks, a remote sandbank off northwestern Tasmania.
Three extreme surfers decide to take them on.

・Screen Screams
The Manila Film Center was supposed to be Imelda Marcos''s greatest artistic triumph. As a result of a freak accident
during construction, it turned into a nightmare for both builders and visitors.

・A Pachyderm Puzzle
In a patch of jungle in northern Borneo, pygmy elephants are happily grazing. Extinct in their native Java, the
mystery is how they got to Borneo and survived there.

・Master of Architecture
Andrea Palladio, an architect from Padua, Italy took a trip to Rome in 1541 and was inspired by what he saw.
So inspired, he created classic buildings that have influenced generations of architects.

・His Majesty the Sphinx
More than 4,500 years old, and probably the most recognisable statue in the world, the Sphinx has an incredible
history of abandonment - only to be resurrected time and again.

・Gone Fishing
Tagging reclusive sharks in the frozen wilds of Canada sounds like a clean job for Mike Rowe.
But the dirt still tracks him down.

・Great, Green and Grassy
It''s just a really big kind of grass, but bamboo offers food, shelter, beauty and a livelihood to millions.

・What''s This (Issue Five)
Spiders aren''t as solitary as people think. There are more than 15 social species that spin communal webs.
The photo shows the intricate work of one such species - the Anelosimus eximius. Commonly found in South America,
these spiders construct huge hammock-shaped webs often exceeding 100 cubic metres in volume.

Cyclone Nargis
Although the floodwaters have retreated, it''s important we don''t forget the survivors of Cyclone Nargis now
that the story isn''t attracting so many headlines. Disease, hunger, grief and depression will afflict the
people of the Irrawaddy Delta and beyond for months and maybe years to come.

If you want to help, please visit the following links where updates on the situation are posted and where
online donations can be made:

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

Foundation for the People of Burma

International Medical Corps

Save the Children