Love & Sex
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How Rising Education for Women Is Shaping the Global Population
Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . In their 1968 book The Population Bomb, biologists Paul Ehrlich and his wife Anne foretold a Malthusian future of famine and disease if humanity failed to control its growth. The Ehrlichs’ warning made sense. At the time, the global population sat at […]
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3-D Printed Statues in Central Park Shine a Light on Women Scientists
A new exhibit in Central Park features six statues of women scientists—the first statues of real women to be found in the park.Courtesy of Lyda Hill Philanthropies’ IF/THEN Initiative Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Forged in metal or chiseled in stone, statues almost always depict dead men. A […]
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This Vision Experiment Resolved a Centuries-Old Philosophical Debate
“We conclude,” the researchers wrote, “that objects have a remarkably persistent dual character: their objective shape ‘out there,’ and their perspectival shape ‘from here.’”Photograph by Ryan DeBerardinis / Shutterstock Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Imagine you are looking at a manhole cover a few paces away on the […]
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Sex Is Driven by the Impetus to Change
Hooking up is nature’s way for a species to overcome a bad genomic match.
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We Don’t Have to Despair
Medical research director Eric Topol sees light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel.
