John steele
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Spark of Science: France A. Cordova
The director of the National Science Foundation on what brought her back to science. -
Spark of Science: Sean B. Carroll
One biologist’s love for science got kickstarted by snakes. -
The Man Who Would Tame Cancer
Patrick Soon-Shiong is opening a new front in the war on the deadly disease. -
Ingenious: John Ochsendorf
Meet the architectural rebel who champions ancient engineers. -
The Man Who Delayed D-Day
The eminent oceanographer Walter Munk reflects on science and war.
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The Father of Inflation Clears Up a Big Misunderstanding
Last week researchers working on the BICEP2 experiment in Antarctica announced that they’d seen solid evidence of gravitational waves that emerged very early in the Universe’s history. This discovery lent support to inflation, a theory of cosmology long popular among physicists but still lacking in direct proof. (To learn more about the recent discovery and […]
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Where Did Time Come From, and Why Does It Seem to Flow?
ASU Paul Davies has a lot on his mind—or perhaps more accurate to say in his mind. A physicist at Arizona State University, he does research on a wide range of topics, from the abstract fields of theoretical physics and cosmology to the more concrete realm of astrobiology, the study of life in places beyond […]
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Will We Reverse-Engineer the Human Brain Within 50 Years?
Gary Marcus can’t understand why people are shocked when he calls the brain a computer. The 43-year-old professor of psychology at New York University, author of Kluge, about the haphazard evolution of the brain, and a leading researcher in how children acquire language, grins and says it’s a generational thing.“I know there’s a philosophical school of dualism […]
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Carbon Fated: We’re Built This Way for a Reason
In each issue of Nautilus, we shine a spotlight on one “Ingenious” scientist whose work makes us reconsider our world and ourselves. The Ingenious for our first issue, “What Makes You So Special,” is Columbia University astrophysicist Caleb Scharf, who contributed an essay about our place in the universe and talked about his life and […]
