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Nautilus

Yvonne Bang

Physics

How a Snowflake Turns Into an Avalanche

Kevin Berger is the editor at large of Nautilus.

Kevin Berger

Neuroscience

Ingenious: Helen Fisher

Regan Penaluna is a Brooklyn-based journalist who writes about science, philosophy, and the natural world. Her book How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind was a New York Times Editors’ Choice.

Regan Penaluna

Psychology

Why Do People Have Such Strong Feelings for the Portland Airport’s Carpet?

Alexandra Ossola

Arts

How to Make Art That Withstands the Test of Time

Vincent Ialenti

Anthropology

Can Remnants of Ancient Life Show Us How to Live Wisely Into the Future?

Looking Into the Far Future of Earth’s First Long-Term Nuclear-Waste Vault

Zoology

The Fly King Speaks

Amy Maxmen

Health

How Slow Responses Made the Ebola Outbreak So Deadly

Amy Klein

Genetics

The Slower, Gentler Version of IVF

Sean Raymond is an American astrophysicist working at the <a href="https://astrophy.u-bordeaux.fr/?lang=en">Bordeaux Astrophysical Laboratory</a> in France. He also writes a blog at the interface of science and fiction (<a href="https://planetplanet.net/">planetplanet.net</a>) and published a <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08LFZZWGZ">book of astronomy poems</a>.

Sean Raymond

Astronomy

Give Thanks to Jupiter, our Little Planet’s Big Protector

Brandon Keim (<a href="https://brandonkeim.substack.com">Substack</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/9brandon/">Instagram</a> |<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/brandonkeim.bsky.social">Bluesky</a> | <a href="https://mastodon.social/home">Mastodon</a>) is a freelance journalist and contributing editor at Nautilus. His new book, <a href="https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324007081">Meet the Neighbors</a>, explores what the science of animal intelligence means for how we understand and live with the wild creatures around us.

Brandon Keim

Environment

Wild-Winter Whodunnit—Climate Change Over the U.S. With a Slow Jet Stream?

Adam Piore, a veteran journalist, is the author of two books and a longtime Nautilus contributor. He currently covers health and infectious disease for the Boston Globe.

Adam Piore

The Impossible Physiology of the Free Diver

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