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Nautilus

Liz Greene is the managing editor at Nautilus.

Liz Greene

General

Emergence

July/August 2017

May/June 2017

Abby R. Rosenberg is Assistant Professor in the Division of Hematology-Oncology and the Division of Bioethics in the Department of Pediatrics at University of Washington School of Medicine, where she conducts research on psychosocial outcomes, sarcoma, adolescent and young adult oncology, and palliative care.

Abby R. Rosenberg

Health

How My Cancer Patient’s Scary Father Emotionally Scarred Me

Sabine Hossenfelder is a theoretical physicist at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, in Germany, focusing on modifications of general relativity, phenomenological quantum gravity, and the foundations of quantum mechanics. She is the creative director of the YouTube channel <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1yNl2E66ZzKApQdRuTQ4tw">“Science without the gobbledygook”</a> where she talks about recent scientific developments and debunks hype. Her latest book is <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/616868/existential-physics-by-sabine-hossenfelder/">Existential Physics: A Scientist’s Guide to Life’s Biggest Questions</a>. Follow her on X (formerly known as Twitter) <a href="https://twitter.com/skdh">@skdh</a>.

Sabine Hossenfelder

Communication

Outraged By the Google Diversity Memo? I Want You to Think About It

John Rennie joined Quanta Magazine as deputy editor in 2017. Previously, he spent 20 years at Scientific American, where he served as editor in chief between 1994 and 2009. He created and hosted Hacking the Planet, an original 2013 TV series for The Weather Channel, and has appeared frequently on television and radio on programs such as PBS’s Newshour, ABC’s World News Now, NPR’s Science Friday, the History Channel special Clash of the Cavemen and the Science Channel series Space’s Deepest Secrets. John has also been an adjunct professor of science writing at New York University since 2009. Most recently, he was editorial director of McGraw-Hill Education’s online science encyclopedia AccessScience.

John Rennie

Neuroscience

Mini-Brains Go Modular

Tyler Nordgren

Astronomy

Eclipses Make Great Yardsticks

Natalie Wolchover

Math

19 Women Leading Math and Physics

Pedro Ferreira

Dark Matter May Be Trapped in All the Black Holes

Jimmy Soni & Rob Goodman

Technology

How Information Got Re-Invented

David Krakauer is the president and William H. Miller professor of complex systems at the Santa Fe Institute.

David Krakauer

Arts

The Typewriter’s Love of the Desert

Brian Gallagher is an associate editor at Nautilus. Follow him on X (formerly known as Twitter) <a href="https://twitter.com/bsgallagher/" rel="noopener">@bsgallagher</a>.

Brian Gallagher

Microbiology

The $1 Billion Misunderstanding of Aging

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