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3 articles

- Physics
A Letter to Einstein from the Future
- By Steven Gubser & Frans Pretorius
- September 9, 2017
Two Princeton physicists catch Albert up.
- Neuroscience
On the Last Day of 2013, Let’s Predict the Science of 2014
- By Amos Zeeberg
- December 31, 2013
Fluorescent-labeled neurons in a mouse hippocampus made visible using the new CLARITY technique.Kwanghun Chung & Karl Deisseroth, HHMI/Stanford Univ. Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . It’s not our fault. Blame the theorists, explorers, experimenters, and inventors. We at Nautilus try to keep on top of all the amazing new things […]
- Environment
How to Tell The Future(s)
- By Adam Frank
- July 5, 2013
In 1972 the Club of Rome, an international think tank, commissioned four scientists to use computers to model the human future. The result was the infamous Limits to Growth that crashed into world culture like an asteroid from space. Collapse, calamity and chaos were the media take-aways from the book, even though the authors tried […]