In 2012, I ran a trip sampling the nautilus populations along Australia’s Great Barrier Reef explicitly to see if nautiluses living on marine protected areas of the reef are as rare…

This story was originally published by Knowable Magazine.Cells build an elegant, symmetrical structure. How they do it is intriguing on its own, but recent insights could also help…

Even if you make it past the interplanetary radiation, you’re still confronted with any number of hazards, and they don’t stop once you land.Image by SyFy / YouTubeIn the why-aren’t-you-watching-this…

How remarkable, I thought, that science is fulfilling, in some sense, that ancient aspiration to decipher some measure of our personal nature and fate.In February, for my birthday,…

It began like any normal pregame in the woods. Naked, alone, hungover, a sweaty sleeping bag in the back of a dusty pickup truck, miles from civilization. Predawn in a narrow Utah…

Wrangel Island carries a certain profoundness, a divine story of a different sort. Life here is postapocalyptic, a kind of rebound. It portends the future. My sponsor is Alexander…

Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine‘s Abstractions blog.Researchers explore a loophole that extracts useful energy from a fluid’s seemingly random motion. The secret?…

After a few years of driving, you are able to hold conversations while navigating a busy city. How is this possible without unconscious thought?Photograph by wavebreakmedia / ShutterstockNick…

No doubt if you had the special ability to see beyond the color spectrum, it would benefit not just yourself, but your family and friends, too.PexelsHave you ever wondered how your…

By the time Donald Johnson got the call to come to the crime scene, the victim had been dead for hours. A first responder opened the apartment door to find a woman lying on the edge…