Issue 53 of the Nautilus print edition combines some of the best content from our November and December 2023 online issues. It includes contributions from award-winning science journalist Adam Piore, astrophysicist Paul M. Sutter, bestselling author Lucy Cooke, science journalist Dan Falk, and more. This issue also features new illustrations by John Hendrix.

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Celebrating the Relationship Between Science and Illustration
A conversation with Society of Illustrators executive director Arabelle Liepold -
The Extraordinary, Imperiled Science at the End of the Earth
Firing experts in Antarctica couldn’t come at a worse time -
Breaking a Cycle of Apocalypse
John Larison’s new novel The Ancients suggests some societies are built for cataclysm -
An Earthy Fallen Star
The strange mushroom that puffs life into forests around the world. -
Inside an Exploded Star
Cassiopeia A gets a close-up.