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Steve Stewart-Williams

Psychology

Nurture Alone Can’t Explain Male Aggression

Sidney Perkowitz is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Physics Emeritus, Emory University. His latest books are A Short Introduction to Physics, Real Scientists Don’t Wear Ties, and Science Sketches: the Universe from Different Angles.

Sidney Perkowitz

History

Most Tech Today Would be Frivolous to Ancient Scientists

Viviane Callier is a science writer in Rockville, MD.

Viviane Callier

Microbiology

Viruses Have a Secret, Altruistic Social Life

Pankaj S. Joshi

Astronomy

An Astrophysicist on What the Black-Hole Image Reveals

Sabine Hossenfelder is a theoretical physicist at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, in Germany, focusing on modifications of general relativity, phenomenological quantum gravity, and the foundations of quantum mechanics. She is the creative director of the YouTube channel <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1yNl2E66ZzKApQdRuTQ4tw">“Science without the gobbledygook”</a> where she talks about recent scientific developments and debunks hype. Her latest book is <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/616868/existential-physics-by-sabine-hossenfelder/">Existential Physics: A Scientist’s Guide to Life’s Biggest Questions</a>. Follow her on X (formerly known as Twitter) <a href="https://twitter.com/skdh">@skdh</a>.

Sabine Hossenfelder

First Black-Hole Image: It’s Not Looks That Count

Nautilus Editors

Physics

The Day Feynman Worked Out Black-Hole Radiation on My Blackboard

Kevin Hartnett

In Quantum Games, There’s No Way to Play the Odds

Aubrey Clayton is an applied mathematical researcher, lecturer, and writer. He is the child of two math teachers and the author of <a href="https://cup.columbia.edu/book/bernoullis-fallacy/9780231199940">Bernoulli’s Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science</a>.

Aubrey Clayton

Math

Nassim Taleb’s Case Against Nate Silver Is Bad Math

Brian Gallagher is an associate editor at Nautilus. Follow him on X (formerly known as Twitter) <a href="https://twitter.com/bsgallagher/" rel="noopener">@bsgallagher</a>.

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Nurture Alone Can’t Explain Male Aggression

Most Tech Today Would be Frivolous to Ancient Scientists

Viruses Have a Secret, Altruistic Social Life

An Astrophysicist on What the Black-Hole Image Reveals

First Black-Hole Image: It’s Not Looks That Count

The Day Feynman Worked Out Black-Hole Radiation on My Blackboard

In Quantum Games, There’s No Way to Play the Odds

Nassim Taleb’s Case Against Nate Silver Is Bad Math

A Precursor Piece to DNA Was Found in Star Material

When the Link Between Space and Time Will Be Intuitive

Glaciers May Have Covered the Entire Planet—Twice

Fear Is Good for the Forest