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Longevity Might Be All In Your Head
The biological age of your organs could predict your health—and death -
How to Make the Bread That Fueled the Pyramids
And the beer that gave rise to civilizations, too. -
Does Anybody Really Know What Time Is?
Yes, your brain does. It created it. -
Our Busy Universe
A sliver of space from the Vera Rubin Observatory -
What Deep Time Can Tell Us About Coral Reefs
Lisa Gardiner on the 3 greatest revelations she had while writing Reefs of Time -
Art and Science in a Grain of Sand
Filmmaker Mark Levinson on the kinship between disciplines -
A Hymn Lost for a Millennium
AI helped piece together clay fragments to tell a new story of Babylon -
Monumental Burial Mounds Rewrite Ancient History
The colossal structures, built by hunter-gatherers, are way older than archaeologists had thought possible -
The Nautilus Summer Reading List
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Lefties Aren’t as Creative as We Thought
In fact, righties may have the edge, contrary to popular belief -
Leap of Faith
Lemur mothers are bold mountaineers when hunting for food -
Is It Cake? How Our Brain Deciphers Materials
Neuroscientists are discovering how this basic ability, essential to our survival, works
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Laughing Apes Take Risks
Hearing the sounds of chuckles may make our bonobo cousins think on the bright side
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Chasing Lost Languages
Author Laura Spinney on the 3 greatest revelations she had while writing Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global -
“There Were Periods When I Felt He Ruined My Life”
Amanda Gefter talks about the exhausting and thrilling decade she spent writing about lost genius Peter Putnam -
The Ecosystem Dynamics That Can Make or Break an Invasion
By simulating ecological networks with microbes, researchers revealed properties that may make natural communities susceptible to invasion -
Ancient Seas Hosted the Ultimate Squid Game
100 million years ago, the charismatic cephalopods ruled Earth’s oceans -
Your Mind Is Part of the Ecosystem
Recognizing the link between mental and ecological health can change how we relate to the world and ourselves
