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    Evolution’s Contrarian Capacity for Creativity

    The easily confused willow tit and black-capped chickadeef.c.franklin via Flickr / Brandon Keim Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . One of my favorite pastimes while traveling is watching birds. Not rare birds, mind you, but common ones: local variations on universal themes of sparrow and chickadee, crow and mockingbird.I […]
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    What’s Worse: Unwanted Mutations or Unwanted Humans?

    Three of the rare Przewalski’s horses that now roam the area near the Chernobyl nuclear plant.Sergey Gaschak Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . After a fatal series of errors and malfunctions in the early morning of April 26, 1986, the core of the Chernobyl nuclear facility melted down and […]
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    When We Were Fish

    Paleontologist Neil Shubin explains how he charts evolution in the human body.
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    Carriers, Part 5: The Aftermath

    This is the final installment of a five-part series. First read Part 1 , Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 to get caught up.  Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Correction: The text about tests that can be done 10 weeks into pregnancy was changed to clarify the difference […]
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    Carriers, Part 4: The Results

    This is the fourth installment of a five-part series. First read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 to get caught up; then go on to Part 5. Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Lauren R. Weinstein is a cartoonist, cartooning teacher, and avid gardener who lives in scenic Maplewood, New Jersey. […]
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    Carriers, Part 3: The Wait

    This is the third installment of a five-part series. First read Part 1 and Part 2 to get caught up; then go on to Part 4 and Part 5. Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Lauren R. Weinstein is a cartoonist, cartooning teacher, and avid gardener who lives in scenic Maplewood, New […]

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    If You Can’t Beat Diseases, Domesticate Them

    A tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) sucking blood from human skinMarco Uliana via Shutterstock Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . For most of our history, wolves have been a menace to humanity. Sharp teeth, raw speed, and pack coordination put us at serious risk. Their howls still send chills down […]

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    Carriers, Part 2: The Test

    This is the second installment of a five-part series. See Part 1 first; then go on to Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5.  Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Lauren R. Weinstein is a cartoonist, cartooning teacher, and avid gardener who lives in scenic Maplewood, New Jersey. She […]

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    Why I Traveled the World Hunting for Mutant Bugs

    A researcher who works through painting tells her story.

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    Mutation Helps Create the Most Durable Religions

    Traditional performers at the 2007 Mt. Hagen Cultural Show in Papua New GuineaIan @ ThePaperboy Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . When people think of religions, they tend to turn to of the big five: Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, and Buddhism. Although these are the most popular religions in […]

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    The Challenges of Illustrating Science

    Two Nautilus artists share their creative visions.

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    How Technology & Tradition Combine to Make Modern Movies

    In Nebraska, Phedon Papamichael used an unusual combination of digital and analog technologies to achieve a distinctive look.FilmNation Entertainment / Paramount Vantage Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . This is part three of a three-part series about the movie industry’s switch to digital cameras and what is lost, and […]
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    What We Lose When Film Cameras Change to Digital Ones

      Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . This is part two of a three-part series about the movie industry’s switch to digital cameras and what is lost, and gained, in the process. Part one, on the traditional approach to filming movies and the birth of digital, ran yesterday; part three […]
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    Are Digital Cameras Changing the Nature of Movies?

    If film as a medium is not quite dead, it’s definitely on the endangered list.
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    Carriers: A Webcomic on Health, Luck, and Life

    This is the first installment of a five-part series. Also see Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5. Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Read Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5.* Correction: The text about the effects of cystic fibrosis has been changed to reflect the […]
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    A Summer Gaze

    The Summer 2014 Quarterly tackles image and object.