Redford Center Stories Highest Distinction prizewinner highlights how small actions can have big impacts.

Redford Center Stories Grand Prize-winning film spotlights ways even a tiny ripple can change the narrative.

Middle schoolers Annabelle VanderMarck and Piper Lasater won the Nautilus Science Prize in the Redford Center Stories film contest.

Germany, 1865. A man, wealthy and powerful, gets into an argument with a colleague who calls him out for being the habitual liar that he is. Enraged, he challenges his accuser to a duel. The challenger has a military background and is no stranger to weapons and dueling. The challenged, a meek physician scientist, has […]

Sant Director, National Museum of Natural History

Vice President for Science Education, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Gravitational-wave Astrophysicist, Caltech and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Director and Leon Levy Professor, Institute for Advanced Study

The elephant researcher tells her story.

A marine biologist talks about the wonders of hidden lakes.

Director of the National Science Foundation

Being a scientist can be like willingly entering into a Roman gladiatorial contest. The hours are long, there’s a rank smell of indentured servitude, and at any minute your colleagues may attempt to eviscerate you for the pleasure of the crowds. A lot of the time we can look beyond these challenges because we have […]

Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in, and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? If there’s a better description of […]