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Nautilus

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>.

Brian Gallagher

Math

How Enormous Dominoes Can Help You Rethink Saving for Retirement

Claire Cameron

Communication

How the Languages in Game of Thrones, Defiance, and Thor Were Created

Regan Penaluna is a Brooklyn-based journalist who writes about science, philosophy, and the natural world. Her book How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind was a New York Times Editors’ Choice.

Regan Penaluna

Health

Why Expectant Mothers Can Just Chill Out

Justin Nobel

Physics

What Facebook, Blue Jeans, and Metal Signs Taught Us About Tornado Science

Is Our Universe a One-Off Fluke, or an Endless Cycle?

Hannah Waters

Environment

Intemperate Planet: How Natural Systems Magnify the Effects of Global Warming

Kelly Clancy is a neuroscientist and the author of <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/700440/playing-with-reality-by-kelly-clancy/">Playing with Reality: How Games Have Shaped Our World</a>.

Kelly Clancy

How to Unlearn a Disease

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.

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How Enormous Dominoes Can Help You Rethink Saving for Retirement

How the Languages in Game of Thrones, Defiance, and Thor Were Created

Why Expectant Mothers Can Just Chill Out

What Facebook, Blue Jeans, and Metal Signs Taught Us About Tornado Science

Is Our Universe a One-Off Fluke, or an Endless Cycle?

Intemperate Planet: How Natural Systems Magnify the Effects of Global Warming

How to Unlearn a Disease

Forget the Ordinary Honeybee; Look at the Beautiful Bees They’re Crowding Out

What Happens When You Can’t Talk to Yourself?

Blessed by Science: How Genetic Medicine Changed a Strictly Religious Community

Nobody Knows the Real Price of a Forest—and That’s a Problem

The Disease That Turned Us Into Genetic-Information Junkies