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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.

This Ocean Wave Has Rights  

The true meaning of legal protection for nature.

December 16, 2024

The Strange Rise of Daydreaming

Why people become addicted to fantasy lives.

August 29, 2024

When Bacteria Are Beautiful

Making art out of an invisible world that shapes human health and disease.

March 28, 2024

5 Myths About Love and Desire

Love languages aren’t a thing, and sex every day is probably overdoing it.

February 14, 2024

Why We Reject New Ideas

What Shark Tank pitches, Sundance films, and unusual sandwiches show us about our choices.

January 29, 2024

Talk About the Passion

Scientists on the art that has inspired them. Artists on the science that has inspired them.

August 9, 2023

Pocket Forests Are Coming to Town

Can tiny forests deliver on big environmental problems?

August 8, 2023

The Unbelievable Untangling Worms

Solving nature’s greatest Gordian knot.

July 26, 2023

Bummer: Popular Happiness Strategies Are a Bust

A new analysis shows the most widely cited happiness studies relied on poor research methods.

July 24, 2023

How a Dream Engineer Defeats Nightmares

We can rewrite the script on bad dreams.

July 19, 2023

Requiem for the Foghorn

Across the US and around the world, foghorns have disappeared from the coastal landscape.

July 14, 2023

The Dark Side of Fungi

They’re not all magical and entangled. These fungi will kill you.

July 3, 2023