This month’s issue offers multiple perspectives on catalysts in science, from cosmology to medicine, neuroscience to physics. It illuminates the elusive agents of change that spark ever-emergent worlds.

Catalysts

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Liz Greene is the managing editor at Nautilus.

Liz Greene

The cover of Nautilus print edition 65, featuring an illustration of people having a picnic inside a crocodile's open mouth.

General

Print Edition 65: The Food Issue

Print Edition 64

Print Edition 63: The Climates Issue

Print Edition 62

Vittoria Traverso is a freelance writer based in Italy and the U.S. who is interested in stories that can help us see the world differently.

Vittoria Traverso

If Oaks and Orchids Could Talk

Print Edition 61: The Animal Issue

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Kristen French is a senior 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.

Kristen French

Health

How Celebrities Became America’s Unregulated Drug Pushers

Devin Reese is the executive editor of Natural History and a science writer based in Alexandria, Virginia.

Devin Reese

Does Having a Pet Really Improve Our Health?

Jake Currie is a writer based in Brooklyn, NY.

Jake Currie

Psychology

Even Owning a Cell Phone Is Bad for Kids’ Test Scores

Matthew Hutson is a freelance science writer in New York City and the author of an upcoming book on intelligence, Smarts.

Matthew Hutson

Why We Think We Know More Than We Do

Paleontology

Dinosaurs May Have Been Literally Charbroiled After the Asteroid Impact

David Nield has written about science and technology for more than 20 years. His work has appeared in a wide range of publications, including Wired, Popular Science, The Guardian, and Gizmodo.