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Communication

The Cellist and the Physicist

A conversation between Yo-Yo Ma and Fabiola Gianotti.

June 2, 2023

Welcome to The Porthole

Short sharp looks at science.

June 1, 2023

The Comet Year

What the COVID-19 pandemic portends.

April 26, 2023

The Most Beautiful Science of the Year

The best things we learned at Nautilus in 2022.

December 28, 2022

How Shannon Entropy Imposes Fundamental Limits on Communication

What’s a message, really? Claude Shannon recognized that the elemental ingredient is surprise.

September 15, 2022

The Trouble With “The Big Bang”

A rash of recent articles illustrates a longstanding confusion over the famous term.

September 11, 2022

The Case for Popularizing Ocean Science

Why Schmidt Ocean Institute’s Carlie Wiener thinks octopuses and science fiction matter to ocean conservation.

July 13, 2022

A Surprising Side of Carl Sagan

In Contact, the great science advocate posed a religious question about the cosmos.

July 6, 2022

Mysteries Are to Be Embraced, But Also to Be Solved

Science doesn’t rob the world of wonder. It amplifies it.

June 1, 2022

A Voice for Minorities in Aquaculture

Imani Black is working to bring people of color into marine conservation and production.

May 4, 2022

We Better Think Twice About What We Say to ET

Extraterrestrials could take our intergalactic message in entirely the wrong way.

May 4, 2022