Scroll Down
Channels
Tune in to Nautilus' deep dive portals
Why We Need More Intellectually Promiscuous Scientists
by Victor Gomes
Precision Medicine and Aging Have This in Common
by Silvia Golumbeanu
The Math That Promises to Make the World Brighter
by Kevin Hartnett
The Problem with the Mutation-Centric View of Cancer
by Brian Gallagher
Gold Mining for Profit and Paleontology
by Lomax Boyd
Dr. Robbert Dijkgraaf
by Michael Segal
How Much Should Expectation Drive Science?
by Claudia Geib
The Paradox of the Elephant Brain
by Suzana Herculano-Houzel
Popular on Nautilus
- Most Read
- Most Shared
-
3 Your Next New Best Friend Might Be a Robot
Meet Xiaoice. She’s empathic, caring, and always available—just not human.
BY Yongdong Wang -
4 Emotional Intelligence Needs a Rewrite
Think you can read people’s emotions? Think again.
BY Lisa Feldman Barrett -
5 Loyalty Nearly Killed My Beehive
My queen was a dud, and her replacement had been murdered.
BY John Knight -
6 Darwin Was a Slacker and You Should Be Too
Many famous scientists have something in common—they didn’t work long hours.
BY Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
-
1 Your Next New Best Friend Might Be a Robot
Meet Xiaoice. She’s empathic, caring, and always available—just not human.
BY Yongdong Wang -
3 Emotional Intelligence Needs a Rewrite
Think you can read people’s emotions? Think again.
BY Lisa Feldman Barrett -
4 Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Your Free Will
How the attention economy is subverting our decision-making and our democracy.
BY Brian Gallagher -
5 How We Cope with the End of Nature
As our environment crumbles, we seek solace in animatronic moose.
BY Stephen Marche -
6 How to Choose Wisely
From Yelping to dating, there’s a better way.
BY Tom Vanderbilt
Facts So Romantic
Science has a powerful voice in today’s culture.
So what is it saying?
-
Biology
Precision Medicine and Aging Have This in Common
We are healthier and living longer than we ever have, and advances like personalized medicine seem to promise an ever brighter future. But as the proportion of elderly people increases,…
Read More -
Ideas
Why We Need More Intellectually Promiscuous Scientists
When Thomas Steitz, Ada Yonath, and Venkatraman Ramakrishnan were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their research, in 2009, they acknowledged a debt. Without the work of…
Read More -
Matter
This Crystal Mimics Learning and Forgetting
You don’t need a brain to learn. Slime molds, for example, solve mazes and navigate obstacles—all without a single neuron. Information about their environment is somehow stored across…
Read More -
Culture
Alienation Is Killing Americans and Japanese
The stories have become all too familiar in Japan, though people often do their best to ignore them. An elderly or middle-aged person, usually a man, is found dead, at home in his apartment,…
Read More
Listen to Nautilus
NARRATED VERSIONS OF OUR STORIES
All Audio Articles-
Culture
The Original Natural Born Killers
By Edward Tenner
-
Matter
The Trouble with Theories of Everything
By Lawrence M. Krauss
-
Culture
Why We Procrastinate
By Alisa Opar
Nautilus Prime
Get the full Nautilus digital experience.
Members Sign In
Like Nautilus? You’ll love Nautilus Prime.
Unlimited online reading Read it all, whenever, wherever, and however you like.
Ad Free Get a pristine, ad-free reading experience.
Tablet editions All the content and design of our award-winning print magazine, in PDF format—perfect for reading on your tablet or desktop.
eBook editions We’ve made each monthly online issue into an eBook, compatible with most e-readers.
Event Access Prime members get priority access to Nautilus events.
Current print subscriber?You're already a Prime member.
