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Katherine Harmon Courage

Katherine Harmon Courage is the executive editor at Nautilus.

What Poop Reveals About Ancient Humans

The parasites found lurking in 1,000-year-old feces give a glimpse into the health and daily life of the past

October 22, 2025

The Periscope: Book Weeding, Fact-Checking, and Imperiled Fruit Fly Data

What <i>Nautilus</i> executive editor Katherine Courage has been tuning into recently

A Library for Fish Sounds

Can eavesdropping on the ocean help to save its creatures?

September 30, 2025

New Eyes on Space Weather

From threats of solar storms to cosmic radiation, new efforts to warn Earthlings are launching

September 23, 2025

Some Dogs Can Learn New Linguistic Tricks

These word games spell out canines’ surprising cognitive powers

September 18, 2025

Meet the Asteroids Next Door

A radar system is set to map near-Earth objects as they fly by

September 9, 2025

How to Run Across Death Valley in the Summer

Learning how to cope with heatwaves, from an ultrarunner

Looking for Life’s Source on Ceres

The dwarf planet might have had a hot core and liquid oceans

Looking at Art on Psychedelics

People took mushrooms, then studied famous paintings. Here’s what happened.

We’re All Connected

Welcome to the Climates Issue

First Views of the Perseid Meteor Shower

An early peep for this year’s peak

How to Count Butterflies

6 projects to volunteer for community science to study butterfly populations