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    Steven Pinker on the Tribal Roots of Defying Social Distancing

      Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . The images are everywhere: People crowded face-to-face in swimming pools, shoulder-to-shoulder in indoor bars, cheering without masks at a rally held by President Trump, who often downplays the global pandemic. Now, as many public health experts predicted, waves of new COVID-19 infections […]

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    The Mystery of the Dark Asteroid That Scorched Russia

    A new theory emerges to explain the enigmatic Tunguska Event.

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    The Trouble with Counting Alien Civilizations

    Life on Earth is a sketchy guide to intelligent life in the cosmos.

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    Why Birds Can Fly Over Mount Everest

    A story for my grandchildren about oxygen, evolution, and our planet’s fate.

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    Life on Earth Is a Sketchy Guide to an Alien Civilization

    Any assumptions about properties like intelligence or agency that we make based on what we currently know about life on Earth are on exceedingly shaky ground.Photograph by European Southern Observatory (ESO) / Wikicommons Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . You might imagine that in the midst of a global […]

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    The Animal Kingdom Should Have Father’s Day Too

    A concerned clownfish father looking after his nest of tiny, orange eggs.Justin Rhodes Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Becoming a parent brings out the best in many animals. Although parenting is usually left to the females, males from many species go above and beyond to care for the […]