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Kristen French

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.

Want to Make New Friends?

Take some notes from the monk parakeet

November 24, 2025

For Birds, Beauty Can Be a Curse

Good looks encourage trafficking and even risk extinction

November 13, 2025

The World’s Tiniest Wave Tank

This ocean on a chip unlocks the mysteries of rogue waves, tsunamis, and other aquatic oddities

October 24, 2025

This Inca Building was the Original Boom Box

A 600-year-old temple was likely designed to amplify drum beats and music

October 24, 2025

How Scavenging Made Us Human

Our early ancestors were more like vultures than we might like to think

October 23, 2025

Daydream Your Way to Life-Changing Insights

Certain kinds of mind wandering can lead to powerful epiphanies

October 1, 2025

Extraterrestrials are People, Too

Should we grant legal rights to extraterrestrial lifeforms before we find them?

September 24, 2025

Rogue Wave Mystery Solved

Each leviathan of the deep has a signature that can be used to forecast it

September 10, 2025

Why This 17-Year-Old Girl Can’t Forget

Some people have extraordinary powers of mental time travel

September 3, 2025

How Phantom Limb Tricks Us

New maps of the brain may explain why amputees feel pain in the void

August 26, 2025

When the Ocean Floor Came Alive

The first map of the Atlantic seafloor revealed a dynamic world under the waves

August 19, 2025