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17 articles

- Environment
Imitation Is the Sincerest Form of Environmentalism
- By Anastasia Bendebury & Michael Shilo DeLay & others
- October 7, 2020
To stop destroying nature, developers are mimicking it.
- Environment
The Greening of Antarctica
- By Marissa Grunes
- October 7, 2020
Few have witnessed the impact of global warming more closely than this scientist.
- Environment
Kim Stanley Robinson Holds Out Hope
- By Liz Greene
- October 7, 2020
The science-fiction author on why climate change doesn’t have to be humanity’s final story.
- Arts
Los Angeles Is Gone
- By Kim Stanley Robinson
- October 7, 2020
In an excerpt from his new novel, the author drowns La La Land.
- Psychology
It Pays to Be a Space Case
- By Alice Fleerackers
- October 6, 2020
Kieran Fox, a neuroscientist, says some of his colleagues see him as an “alien” because of all the time he takes off to let his mind wander.Photo Illustration by Sergey Nivens / Shutterstock Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . It’s a feeling we all know well—you’re at a work […]

Does Social Media Poison Everything?

We have far less control over our behavior than we like to think.
- By Scott Koenig
- October 3, 2020
Thank You for the 7 PM Clapping, But Camaraderie Is Needed More Than Ever

Handwashing, mask-wearing and physical distancing are the easy part. The true challenge is to face the pain and suffering that exists all around us and know that doing so will not break us.Illustration by Blinx / Shutterstock Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . COVID has reached peak unsexiness. The […]
- By Ayala Danzig
- October 3, 2020
Why We Should Eat Crickets. And Other Bug Ideas

As the human population expands, we are going to have to find better ways to feed ourselves without further decimating the environment.Photograph by Koldunova Anna / Shutterstock Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . In his new book, The Butterfly Effect: Insects and the Making of the Modern World, Edward […]
- By Mary Ellen Hannibal
- October 1, 2020
How Psilocybin Can Save the Environment

To preserve nature, we need to open our minds to it.
- By Mark MacNamara
- September 30, 2020
The Human Error Darwin Inspired

How the demotion of Homo sapiens led to environmental destruction.
- By Aaron Hirsh
- September 30, 2020
I Built My Own Artificial Neural Network

With a little help from one of the 2024 Nobel Prize Winners in Physics.
- By George Musser
- September 29, 2020

- Health
The Importance of Face Masks and the Tragedy of Downplaying Them
- By Kevin Berger
- September 23, 2020
An infectious disease expert brings us up to date on the science of wearing a face mask.
- Zoology
The Fungal Evangelist Who Would Save the Bees
- By Merlin Sheldrake
- September 23, 2020
How mushrooms could solve colony collapse disorder.
- Psychology
People Are Discovering the Joy of Actually Talking on a Phone
- By Brian Gallagher
- September 23, 2020
Our hesitation to be close is based on an illusion that our spoken conversations won’t go as well as we hope.
- Math
At the Math Olympiad, Computers Prepare to Go for the Gold
- By Kevin Hartnett
- September 21, 2020
Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine‘s Abstractions blog. Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . The 61st International Mathematical Olympiad, or IMO, began yesterday. It may go down in history for at least two reasons: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic it’s the first time the event has been held remotely, and […]
- Environment
The Environmental Headache in Your Shampoo
- By Anastasia Bendebury & Michael Shilo DeLay & others
- September 16, 2020
Palm oil is an environmental scourge. Plant biology has a solution.