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Nautilus

Kate Marvel is a climate scientist and the author of Human Nature: Nine Way to Feel About Our Changing Planet. She led the “Climate Trends” chapter in the U.S. government’s Fifth National Climate Assessment, and has given a TED Talk, appeared on “Meet the Press” and “The Ezra Klein Show,” and testified before the U.S. Congress. She has written for Scientific American, Nautilus, and the On Being Project. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.

Kate Marvel

Environment

What Poseidon Is Telling Us

Kevin Berger is the editor at large of Nautilus.

Kevin Berger

Geoscience

You Have Never Felt Climate Change Like This

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

Sociology

Pedestrians Are Walking Faster

Sofia Quaglia is a freelance journalist writing about all things science and nature and how we talk about them. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, BBC, National Geographic, The Guardian, New Scientist, and more. She’s on a mission to visit the entire planet by spending each month in a different country, so she’s been living on the road since 2021. You can find her on X (formerly known as Twitter) at <a href="https://twitter.com/sofiquaglia">@sofiquaglia</a>.

Sofia Quaglia

Microbiology

These “Junk” Proteins May Fuel Adaptation

Taryn Wood

Technology

How to Thwart Internet Scams

Katherine Harmon Courage is the executive editor at Nautilus.

Katherine Harmon Courage

Astronomy

The Beauty of Martian Rocks

Carly Anne York is currently an associate professor at Lenoir-Rhyne University. She received her Ph.D. in ecological studies from Old Dominion University. She is also the author of two nonfiction science books for children, A Day in the Life: Horses and Queens of the Jungle. She lives in North Carolina.

Carly Anne York

Health

How to Grow Human Bones

Elena Kazamia is a science writer from Greece. She has a master’s degree in conservation from University College London and a Ph.D. in plant sciences from the University of Cambridge in the U.K.

Elena Kazamia

Arts

A Living Gown

Molly Glick is the newsletter editor of Nautilus.

Molly Glick

Stabbing Starfish to Save the Reefs

<a href="https://edsimon.org/">Ed Simon</a> is a staff writer at The Millions and the editor-in-chief at Belt Magazine. His most recent books are Pandemonium: A Visual History of Demonology and Binding the Ghost: Theology, Transcendence, and the Mystery of Literature. Follow him on X (formerly known as Twitter) @WithEdSimon.

Ed Simon

History

The Dangers of Hot Air

Rasmus Rosenberg Larsen is an assistant professor of forensic epistemology and philosophy of science at the University of Toronto Mississauga and a senior scientist at the National Center for Ontological Research. His research has appeared in journals like The Lancet: Psychiatry; Psychology, Public Policy, and Law; and Philosophical Psychology. He is the author of <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262552202/psychopathy-unmasked/">Psychopathy Unmasked</a>.

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