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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

Could the Sun’s Orbit Shape Evolution?

Tyler Santora is a freelance science journalist, editor, and fact-checker based out of Colorado who has written for Undark, Scientific American, Popular Science, Nature Medicine, Science, and more.

Tyler Santora

Health

Lifetime of Friendships Slows Aging

Molly Glick is the newsletter editor of Nautilus.

Molly Glick

Photo of Nobel Prize medal resting on the pages of an open book.

Sociology

Will Trump’s Immigration Policies Hurt US Nobel Chances?

Victoria Goldiee is a freelance writer who covers science, lifestyle and underrepresented communities. Her work has been featured in The Cut, The Guardian and more.

Victoria Goldiee

Arts

Making Art with Pythons and Lionfish

Katharine Gammon is a freelance science writer based in Santa Monica, California, who writes about environment, science, and parenting. You can find her on X (formerly known as Twitter) @kategammon.

Katharine Gammon

A photo of a grue jay, a new hybrid of two other kinds a jays

Zoology

The Pizzly Bears and Grue Jays of the Future

Primatologist Shirely Strum conducted 50 years of field research in Kenya. She is the author of Echoes of Our Origins: Baboons, Humans and Nature, which lays out the decades of her discoveries—from baboons’ complex strategies for negotiation, collaboration, and resilience to the evolution of trust in baboon society.

Shirely Strum

Baby baboons greet each other enthusiastically.

This Is What a Baboon Reunion Looks Like

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

An AI robot sits crosslegged in a yoga pose

Technology

This Is What Happens When AI Talks to Itself

Shawna Williams is a freelance writer and editor based in Queens, NY. Her work has appeared in publications including The Scientist, BioSpace, and Hopkins Medicine.

Shawna Williams

High-Tech Lollipops That Detect Disease

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

Photo of a statue of Jesus wearing a crown of thorns

Philosophy

Was Jesus a Shaman?

Sofia Quaglia is a freelance journalist writing about all things science and nature and how we talk about them. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, BBC, National Geographic, The Guardian, New Scientist, and more. She’s on a mission to visit the entire planet by spending each month in a different country, so she’s been living on the road since 2021. You can find her on X (formerly known as Twitter) at <a href="https://twitter.com/sofiquaglia">@sofiquaglia</a>.

Sofia Quaglia

The Power Grid Is Struggling. Can AI Fix It?

Katherine Harmon Courage is the executive editor at Nautilus.

Katherine Harmon Courage

Communication

The Periscope: Book Weeding, Fact-Checking, and Imperiled Fruit Fly Data

<a href="http://marcbekoff.com/">Marc Bekoff</a>, Ph.D. is a professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has published 31 books (or 41 depending on if you count multi-volume encyclopedias), won many awards for his research on animal behavior, animal emotions (cognitive ethology), compassionate conservation, and animal protection, worked closely with Jane Goodall, and is co-chair of the ethics committee of the Jane Goodall Institute, and a former Guggenheim Fellow. He and Jane wrote The Ten Trusts: What We Must Do to Care For the Animals We Love.

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