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Why Do So Many Scientists Want to be Filmmakers?

The problem with C.P. Snow’s famous two-cultures hypothesis.

March 20, 2018

Antonio Damasio Tells Us Why Pain Is Necessary

The neuroscientist explains why feelings evolved.

January 18, 2018

Why Females Decide What’s Beautiful

Uncovering the nature of sexual selection.

November 13, 2017

Is the Modern Mass Extinction Overrated?

We are ignoring the gains that balance the losses.

October 26, 2017

Why We Still Need Monsters

This month’s Ingenious, Stephen T. Asma, on what haunts us.

October 12, 2017

Ingenious: Albert Camus

A reconstructed conversation with the great writer about science and the absurd.

June 29, 2017

Ingenious: Dalton Conley

The Princeton sociologist explains why race is not a scientific category.

May 31, 2017

The Cello Music of the Spheres

Experience mathematical beauty and symmetry in a multimedia work.

October 8, 2015

Ingenious: Helen Fisher

Talking sex, brains, and commitment with the best-selling scientist of love.

March 25, 2015

The Fly King Speaks

Meet Fredrik Sjöberg, author of the sleeper hit, The Fly Trap.

March 12, 2015

So I Told These Nomads About the Big Bang…

Anna Badkhen tells us about the experiences that led to her Nautilus feature.

December 2, 2014

The Last Word with Jonathan Weiner

The more science knows, the more rich and mysterious the world becomes.

November 27, 2014