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Biodiversity Alters Strategies of Bacterial Evolution
Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine’s Abstractions blog. Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . In the closing paragraph of On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin urged readers to “contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting […] -
How Inequality Imperils Cooperation
A game theorist breaks down the effects of inequality. -
Lessons for a Young Scientist
A masterclass on what science needs now. -
The 5 Most Popular Nautilus Blog Posts in 2019
Readers’ favorite posts explore a Dutch cure for stress and memories you can inject. -
The 5 Most Popular Nautilus Feature Articles in 2019
Readers’ favorite articles explore tree smarts and the end of the gene as we know it.
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Philosophy Is a Public Service
I design thought experiments to provoke dialogue about who and what we want to become.
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This Test for Machine Consciousness Has an Audience Problem
The audience problem highlights a longstanding worry about robot consciousness—that outward behavior, however sophisticated, would never be enough to prove that the lights are on, so to speak. A well-designed machine could always hypothetically fake it.Photograph by Paul Biryukov / Shutterstock Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Someday, humanity […]
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The Eccentric Seer of Supernovas
Fritz Zwicky decoded how exploding stars fill space with cosmic rays.
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Where Is My Mind?
The rise and fall of the claustrum epitomizes the hunt for consciousness in the brain. -
Memories Can Be Injected and Survive Amputation and Metamorphosis
Experiments on snails and other creatures raise questions about how memories are really stored. -
If We Believe in Dark Matter, Why Not Extraterrestrial Life?
Avi Loeb has a lot of thoughts about aliens and scientific prejudice. -
Is the Law of Conservation of Energy Cancelled?
Maybe energy can be created and destroyed, or maybe the notion doesn’t quite make sense. -
Why the Laws of Physics Are Inevitable
Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine’s Abstractions blog. Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Compared to the unsolved mysteries of the universe, far less gets said about one of the most profound facts to have crystallized in physics over the past half-century: To an astonishing degree, nature is the […]