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Nautilus

Holly Haworth’s work appears in Orion, The New York Times Magazine, Oxford American, Lapham’s Quarterly, Sierra, and at the On Being radio program blog. Her essays have been included in The Best American Science and Nature Writing and listed as notable in The Best American Travel Writing. Her forthcoming book This Resounding World: A Field Guide to Listening received the Robert B. Silvers Foundation grant for Works in Progress. You can subscribe to her newsletter SPELLS at <a href="https://hollyhaworth.substack.com/">hollyhaworth.substack.com</a>.

Holly Haworth

Evolution

We Are Light-Eaters

Jonathan Weiner teaches science writing at Columbia Journalism School. His book The Beak of the Finch won a Pulitzer prize in 1995.

Jonathan Weiner

Back to the Galapagos

Kristen French is an associate editor at Nautilus. She has worked in science journalism since 2013, reporting and writing features and news for publications such as Wired, Backchannel, The Verge, and New York Magazine. She has a masters degree in science journalism from Columbia University.

Kristen French

Environment

This Ocean Wave Has Rights  

Helen De Cruz is a philosopher who works and teaches at Saint Louis University, where she holds the Danforth Chair in the Humanities. She is the author of many books and papers, most recently <a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691232126/wonderstruck?srsltid=AfmBOoryC5WU3DKxpfxyetzLSgyvT2Hq-jEaFIBpAM6aC7HKPSzw11Sf">Wonderstruck: How Wonder and Awe Shape the Way We Think</a> with Princeton University Press (2024).

Helen De Cruz

Philosophy

Meet My Pal, the Ancient Philosopher

Elena Kazamia is a science writer from Greece. She has a master’s degree in conservation from University College London and a Ph.D. in plant sciences from the University of Cambridge in the U.K.

Elena Kazamia

Arts

Reviving Mayan Blue

Philip Ball is a freelance writer based in London, and the author of many books on science and its interactions with the broader culture. His latest book is How Life Works.

Philip Ball

Technology

AI Is the Black Mirror

<a href="https://www.harveywhitehouse.com/">Harvey Whitehouse</a>’s new book is <a href="https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674291621">Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World</a>. He is an anthropologist and the director of the Center for the Study of Social Cohesion at the University of Oxford.

Harvey Whitehouse

Anthropology

How Big Is Your Family?

Paul M. Sutter is a research professor in astrophysics at the Institute for Advanced Computational Science at Stony Brook University and a guest researcher at the Flatiron Institute in New York City. He is the author of Your Place in the Universe: Understanding our Big, Messy Existence.

Paul M. Sutter

Astronomy

Star Siblings Tell Tales of Galactic Chaos

Sarah DeWeerdt is a freelance writer in Seattle covering biology, medicine, and the environment.

Sarah DeWeerdt

Zoology

Why Do Animals Adopt?

Katarina Zimmer is a freelance science and environment journalist.

Katarina Zimmer

When Songbird Couples Split

Greg M. Epstein serves as humanist chaplain at Harvard &amp; MIT, where he advises students, faculty, and staff members on ethical and existential concerns from a humanist perspective. He was TechCrunch&#8216;s first “ethicist in residence” and has been called “a symbol of the transition in how Americans relate to organized religion.” He is the author of the New York Times-bestselling book Good Without God and has also written for MIT Technology Review, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/">CNN.com</a>, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, and Newsweek. His latest book is Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World&#8217;s Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation.

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