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Nautilus

Helen Stillwell

Health

Will We Have a COVID-19 Vaccine Before 2021?

Scott Koenig

Communication

The Pandemic Is Showing Us How to Live with Uncertainty

Robert Bazell

The Good and Bad News from a Coronavirus Pandemic Model

Ilan Kelman

A Professor of Disasters and Health on COVID-19

Alice Fleerackers is a freelance writer fascinated by the psychology of happiness. She is also an assistant professor of journalism and civic engagement at the University of Amsterdam and the vice president of the Global Network for the Communication of Science and Technology.

Alice Fleerackers

Psychology

Scientists Can Predict Your Job By Your Social-Media Personality

Steve Paulson is the executive producer of Wisconsin Public Radio’s nationally syndicated show <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/">To the Best of Our Knowledge</a>. He’s the author of Atoms and Eden: Conversations on Religion and Science. You can find his podcast about psychedelics, Luminous, <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/series/luminous">here</a>.

Steve Paulson

Arts

Why Philip Pullman Is Obsessed with Panpsychism

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

Philosophy

Electrons Don’t Think

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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Will We Have a COVID-19 Vaccine Before 2021?

The Pandemic Is Showing Us How to Live with Uncertainty

The Good and Bad News from a Coronavirus Pandemic Model

A Professor of Disasters and Health on COVID-19

Scientists Can Predict Your Job By Your Social-Media Personality

Why Philip Pullman Is Obsessed with Panpsychism

Electrons Don’t Think

Should Scientists Use the Phrase “Quantum Supremacy”?

Color-Changing Material Unites the Math and Physics of Knots

Why We Love to Be Grossed Out

Why Shouldn’t a Horsefly Be Named After Beyoncé?

This Psychological Concept Could Be Shaping the Presidential Election