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Thomas Levenson is a professor of science writing at MIT. He is the author of several books, including So Very Small, Money for Nothing, The Hunt for Vulcan, Einstein in Berlin, and Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World’s Greatest Scientist. He has also made ten feature-length documentaries for which he has won numerous awards.

Thomas Levenson

Communication

The “Lab Leak”: It’s Not Enough to Say Accidents Happen

Mary Ellen Hannibal is the author of Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction, the winner of Stanford’s Knight-Risser Prize in Western Environmental Literature, and a Stanford media fellow.

Mary Ellen Hannibal

Arts

Film Contest Gives Young Environmental Activists a Voice

Jonathan O’Callaghan

Physics

How Maxwell’s Demon Continues to Startle Scientists

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

Philosophy

Do We Have Free Will? Maybe It Doesn’t Matter

Robert Bazell

Health

COVID Experts: We’re Putting Out Campfires but the Forest Fire Rages

Maki Naro & Diana Kwon

Evolution

How Coronavirus Mutations Arise and New Variants Emerge

Tam Hunt

Neuroscience

The Link Between Bioelectricity and Consciousness

Psychology

This Is How Your Brain Walks the Dog—a Dialogue

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

Celebrating Women Scientists

Caleb Scharf is an astrobiologist, author, and recipient of the 2022 Carl Sagan Medal. His latest book is The Giant Leap: Why Space is the Next Frontier in the Evolution of Life.

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