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Bob Grant

Bob Grant is the deputy editor at Nautilus.

Finally a Commencement Speech That Gets AI Right

Leave it to The Woz to hit the right note with freshly minted graduates

May 22, 2026

Commencement Boos for AI Platitudes

Is the next generation of college graduates justified in jeering at the coming industrial revolution?

May 19, 2026

How Did We Miss the Asteroid That Will Narrowly Miss Us?

Space still harbors surprises aplenty, even with our rapidly evolving technologies

May 18, 2026

Stop Demonizing the Birdwatchers Who Contracted Hantavirus

Landfills are actually excellent places to beef up your lifetime list

May 14, 2026

Thousands of Scientists Sign Letter to Combat Science Board’s Firing

The signatories, including more than 35 Nobel laureates, decry the “alarming attack on the ability of the US to engage in basic and applied research”

May 12, 2026

Stare Into the Heart of an Ancient Iceberg

The beauty of the blue ice belies a fragility exposed by human activity

May 12, 2026

Is This Why Science Advances One Funeral at a Time?

As researchers age, they produce less disruptive work

May 11, 2026

What I’m Watching This Weekend

Considering connecting with cephalopods and plants might be just the thing for an exhausted mind

May 8, 2026

A Century of David Attenborough

The unmistakable narrator of nature documentaries turns 100 today

May 8, 2026

The Mysterious Hantavirus Outbreak That Put the Virus on the Western Map

More than 30 years ago, in the Four Corners region of the US, an Old-World pathogen was discovered in the New World

May 6, 2026