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Nautilus

Kevin Berger is the editor at large of Nautilus.

Kevin Berger

Health

The Body Has a Head

Katherine Harmon Courage is the executive editor at Nautilus.

Katherine Harmon Courage

Astronomy

From the Debris of Halley’s Comet

Molly Glick is the newsletter editor of Nautilus.

Molly Glick

Physics

The Stress Etched in Rose Petals

Rachel Lehmann-Haupt is the author of In Her Own Sweet Time: Unexpected Adventures in Finding Love, Commitment and Motherhood, and Reconceptions: Modern Relationships, Reproductive Science and the Unfolding Future of Family. She is also the founder of StoryMade Studio, a boutique editing and writing studio. She lives in Sausalito, California, with her family.

Rachel Lehmann-Haupt

Neuroscience

My Visit with My Dead Father’s Brain

Jude Coleman is an Oregon-based, freelance science writer who covers topics both serious and curious. Her words have appeared in outlets such as The New York Times, Nature, National Geographic, Scientific American, and others.

Jude Coleman

Environment

Ghost Forests Are Growing

Jake Currie is a writer based in Brooklyn, NY.

Jake Currie

Arts

A Sci-fi Artist Who Draws From Real Life

Zoology

How Female Bonobos Rule

Bob Grant is the deputy editor at Nautilus.

Bob Grant

Evolution

All Birds Roost in a Single Tree

Evelyn Lamb is a freelance math and science writer based in Salt Lake City, Utah. She has written for outlets including Scientific American, Slate, and Quanta. She is the cohost of the My Favorite Theorem podcast and author of the American Mathematical Society’s math-themed page-a-day calendar.

Evelyn Lamb

Math

The Mathematical Mysteries of Fireflies

Kristen French is an associate editor at Nautilus. She has worked in science journalism since 2013, reporting and writing features and news for publications such as Wired, Backchannel, The Verge, and New York Magazine. She has a masters degree in science journalism from Columbia University.

Kristen French

This Plaintive Song Is From a Land Without Lullabies

Keith Sawyer is a creativity researcher. He has published 20 books, including <a href="http://www.groupgenius.net/">Group Genius</a>, <a href="http://www.zigzagcreate.com/">Zig Zag</a>, and, most recently, <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262551649/learning-to-see/">Learning to See</a>. Sawyer is the Morgan Distinguished Professor in Educational Innovations at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A version of this article first appeared on Sawyer’s Substack, <a href="https://keithsawyer.substack.com/">The Science of Creativity</a>.

Keith Sawyer

Psychology

The Creativity Hack No One Told You About

Anil Seth is Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience and Director of the Centre for Consciousness Science at the University of Sussex. He is also Co-Director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Program on Brain, Mind, and Consciousness, and author of the bestselling book Being You—A New Science of Consciousness.

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