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    What Pushes a Person to Suicide?

    In a 2005 review, titled “Dissecting the suicide phenotype: The role of impulsive-aggressive behaviours,” Gustavo Turecki, an expert on suicide at McGill University, argues that impulsivity is a crucial aspect of suicide.Photograph by Andrew Toskin / Flickr Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . One May day five years ago, […]
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    Why Synthetic Protein Research Needs More Funding

    The ability to create and explore such synthetic proteins with atomic level accuracy has the potential to unlock new areas of basic research and to create practical applications in a wide range of fields.Image by G. Indelicato, P. Burkhard, R. Twarock / Royal Society Open Science Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or […]
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    Ingenious: Dalton Conley

    The Princeton sociologist explains why race is not a scientific category.
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    The Inflated Debate Over Cosmic Inflation

    Why the majority of physicists are on one side of a recent exchange of letters.
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    What Both the Left and Right Get Wrong About Race

    Setting the scientific record straight on race, IQ, and success.
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    How a Kids’ Cartoon Created a Real-Life Invasive Army

    Once upon a time, raccoons were strangers to the island of Japan, save for the occasional critter kept in a zoo. That all changed when Araiguma Rasukaru aired and turned a nation onto raccoons’ inherent charm. Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Tales of monsters invading Japan are a […]

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    Why Trump Would Enjoy Being a Consciousness Researcher

      Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Sure, Donald Trump usually isn’t one for heady or complex matters. His business roles—promoting steaks, golf courses, and casinos—haven’t been particularly rigorous, in an intellectual sense. The closest he came was with Trump University (although, among other problems, its use of the […]

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    The Oldest Problem in American Prisons

    U.S. prisons aren’t prepared for an inmate population that is getting older and sicker.

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    Are You a Self-Interrupter?

    Distraction in the technology age.

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    A Linguist Responds to Cormac McCarthy

    If language began as a virus, here’s how it spread.

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    The Moral Importance of Understanding Consciousness

    As we get better and better ideas of what is conscious and what is not, they might change the kinds of experiments we will be able to comfortably and ethically perform.“The Scream” (1893) by Edvard Munch Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Debating whether other beings are conscious can […]