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Nautilus

Alexandra Ossola

Arts

How to Make Art That Withstands the Test of Time

Vincent Ialenti

Anthropology

Can Remnants of Ancient Life Show Us How to Live Wisely Into the Future?

Looking Into the Far Future of Earth’s First Long-Term Nuclear-Waste Vault

Amy Maxmen

Health

How Slow Responses Made the Ebola Outbreak So Deadly

Amy Klein

Genetics

The Slower, Gentler Version of IVF

Sean Raymond is an American astrophysicist working at the <a href="https://astrophy.u-bordeaux.fr/?lang=en">Bordeaux Astrophysical Laboratory</a> in France. He also writes a blog at the interface of science and fiction (<a href="https://planetplanet.net/">planetplanet.net</a>) and published a <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08LFZZWGZ">book of astronomy poems</a>.

Sean Raymond

Astronomy

Give Thanks to Jupiter, our Little Planet’s Big Protector

Brandon Keim (<a href="https://brandonkeim.substack.com">Substack</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/9brandon/">Instagram</a> |<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/brandonkeim.bsky.social">Bluesky</a> | <a href="https://mastodon.social/home">Mastodon</a>) is a freelance journalist and contributing editor at Nautilus. His new book, <a href="https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324007081">Meet the Neighbors</a>, explores what the science of animal intelligence means for how we understand and live with the wild creatures around us.

Brandon Keim

Environment

Wild-Winter Whodunnit—Climate Change Over the U.S. With a Slow Jet Stream?

Kat McGowan

Big Data Helps Find the Achilles Heel of Each Individual Cancer

Claire Cameron

Psychology

5 Languages That Could Change the Way You See the World

Rose Eveleth

Math

Time Trial: See If You Can Clock These Time-Warped GIFs

Katie Bo Williams

Neuroscience

How Odd Behavior in Some Young Horses May Reveal a Cause of Autism

Jim Davies is a professor at the Department of Cognitive Science at Carleton University. He is co-host of the award-winning podcast Minding the Brain. His latest book is Being the Person Your Dog Thinks You Are: The Science of a Better You.

Jim Davies

The Death of Hundreds Is Just a Statistic—But It Doesn’t Have to Be

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