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Is Net Zero Emissions an Impossible Goal?
What it would take to suck more carbon dioxide out of the air than we put in. -
If Only 19th-Century America Had Listened to a Woman Scientist
Where might the US be if it heeded her discovery of global warming’s source? -
Hologram Within a Hologram Hints at Fate of Black Holes
Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine’s Abstractions blog. Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Like cosmic hard drives, black holes pack troves of data into compact spaces. But ever since Stephen Hawking calculated in 1974 that these dense spheres of extreme gravity give off heat and fade away, the fate of […] -
How to Predict Extreme Weather
Climate science is forging a more perfect union between humans and machines. -
Are Neural Networks About to Reinvent Physics?
The revolution of machine learning has been greatly exaggerated.
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Where to See the Real Living Dead
Everyone knows forests are alive, but Suzanne Simard, who studies complex, symbiotic networks, helps us see that life anew. Even dying, for a tree, is not what it seems.Photograph by Tomasz Wrzesien / Shutterstock Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Talk of “Mother Trees,” from a scientist studying plant […]
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Doc Holliday Is Dead But Tuberculosis Is Still Killing Us
In 2002, David M. Morens, now Senior Scientific Advisor at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, wrote an essay called “At the Deathbed of Consumptive Art.” It featured a photograph he took of Robert Louis Stevenson’s resting place atop Mount Vaea on Upolu, an island in Western Samoa. In 1894, at 44, Stevenson, […]
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The Simple Dutch Cure for Stress
“Uitwaaien” is a popular activity around Amsterdam—one believed to have important psychological benefits.Photograph by John Loo / Flickr Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Recently I was in San Francisco, a city known for its tech companies, steep hills, and fierce winds. Each day I’d run around the neighborhood […]
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The Psychology of Greta Thunberg’s Climate Activism
Identifying the ingredients of an effective argument.
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The Rainforest Is Teeming with Consciousness
Our fate turns on retiring our dualist view of nature. -
The Endless Storm Over Jupiter
Why the Great Red Spot refuses to die. -
A Lexicon of Light
Since the universe formed, photons have affected everything.