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Nautilus

Liz Greene is the managing editor at Nautilus.

Liz Greene

General

Print Edition 26

Eliza Strickland

Technology

How Can Microscopic Yeast Draw the Nautilus Logo? The New Art of Bio-Pointillism

Kat McGowan

Zoology

Inside the Goth Chicken: Black Bones, Black Meat & a Black Heart

Jason G. Goldman

A Riot of Color Lurking in the Amazon

Splotchy Cats Show Why It’s Better to Be Female

Margot Anne Kelley

Arts

Two Ideas for Predicting the Next Color of the Year

Shannon Hall

Psychology

Is Coloring Within the Lines the New Meditation?

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.

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Print Edition 26

How Can Microscopic Yeast Draw the Nautilus Logo? The New Art of Bio-Pointillism

Inside the Goth Chicken: Black Bones, Black Meat & a Black Heart

A Riot of Color Lurking in the Amazon

Splotchy Cats Show Why It’s Better to Be Female

Two Ideas for Predicting the Next Color of the Year

Is Coloring Within the Lines the New Meditation?

The Powerful Allure of the Deep Azure

Chasing James Bond’s Hummingbird

Have We Hit Peak Whiteness?

The Terrifying Uncertainty in Jeff VanderMeer’s Sci-Fi

Why Ancient Greeks Might Have Had Much Different Colors Than We Do