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Print Edition 55: The Rebel Issue

By Liz Greene
June 21, 2024

science and culture for people who love beautiful writing.

Issue 55 of the Nautilus print edition is our Rebel Issue. It includes contributions from science writer Elena Kazamia, astrophysicist Paul M. Sutter, film producer Namir Khaliq, philosopher Jonathon Keats, and more. This issue also features new illustrations by Angie Wang and Mark Belan.

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An Earthy Fallen Star
- By Liz Lindqwister
- July 29, 2024
- Environment
The strange mushroom that puffs life into forests around the world.
Inside an Exploded Star
- By Kristen French
- February 22, 2024
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Cassiopeia A gets a close-up.
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- June 30, 2022
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Join us at noon on Monday, June 9, when editor in chief Michael Segal will host a live video chat with award-winning journalist and NYU professor, Jessica Seigel about her latest Nautilus piece, “America Is Getting the Science of Sun Exposure Wrong.” There are two ways to participate. You can send us your questions before […]
Forest for the Trees—Why We Recognize Faces & Constellations
- By Robert X.D. Hawkins
- May 19, 2014
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A Ganado-style Navajo rugNational Park Service For many thousands of years, and across cultures around the world, symmetry has been seen as beautiful. The mirror-image accuracy of the Parthenon is seen also in the Taj Mahal and the geometric patterns of traditional Navajo rugs. We see symmetry in more fluid, modern media, too, like the […]