Brian Gallagher

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    The Logic Puzzle You Can Only Solve with Your Brightest Friend

    You have to cleverly build “common knowledge” to solve this lethal riddle.Wikicommons Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . You’ve been caught snooping around a spooky graveyard with your best friend. The caretaker, a bored old man fond of riddles (and not so fond of trespassers), imprisons each of you […]

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    10 Popular Nautilus Magazine Stories of 2017

    Dive in: From democracy-damaging media to willpower to the holographic universe, here are some of the most-read Nautilus stories of 2017.Illustration by Irene Rinaldi Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . What did the unconscious part of the mind say to the conscious part? This isn’t so much the start […]

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    The Quiet Revolution of CRISPR

    CRISPR’s not on the cusp of anything.Wikicommons Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . How many diseases could humans treat if the DNA in troublesome cells could be edited within the body? Half? Most? How about “absolutely everything”? That was the answer Irina Conboy, a bioengineer at U.C. Berkeley, recently […]

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    Should Scientists Publish Their Personal Biases?

    What if scientists were more transparent about their values? Would their results and recommendations be better received and more trusted if they acknowledged any relevant personal beliefs that may have shaped their research? Nope. Transparency hurts.Photo Illustration by Francesco Izzo / Wikicommons Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . A […]

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    What Tech Can Learn from the Fruit Fly’s Search Algorithm

    Scientists are starting to understand that search powers much of the natural world, too.Image by Intelligent Product Solutions / YouTube Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.” Verse 7:7 from […]

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    Why Einstein Just Got Ranked as History’s Greatest Hero

    Jesus Christ just missed the top five, coming in sixth.

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    Obsessed With Blastocysts

    The discovery of stem cells—made possible by fundamental research in microscopy—sprouted a new field of medicine.Science Philanthropy Alliance / YouTube Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . For the last three decades, Janet Rossant has been obsessed with the puzzle of how you got here. How did a five-day old […]

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    Is There an Ideal Amount of Income Inequality?

    A conversation with this month’s Ingenious, Venkat Venkatasubramanian.

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    Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Your Free Will

    How the attention economy is subverting our decision-making and our democracy.

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    Why It’s Good to Be Curious About Insects

    One of the best jokes May Berenbaum, an entomologist at the University of Illinois, has ever told at a conference goes like this: A man walks into a doctor’s office, imploring her for help. “I think I’m a moth,” he says. The doctor goes, “It’s clear you have a problem, but I’m a pediatrician not […]