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Nautilus

Kat McGowan

Zoology

Splotchy Cats Show Why It’s Better to Be Female

Jennifer Ouellette

Arts

Looking Through Paintings to See What’s Hidden

Margot Anne Kelley

Two Ideas for Predicting the Next Color of the Year

Shannon Hall

Psychology

Is Coloring Within the Lines the New Meditation?

Regan Penaluna is a Brooklyn-based journalist who writes about science, philosophy, and the natural world. Her book How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind was a New York Times Editors’ Choice.

Regan Penaluna

The Powerful Allure of the Deep Azure

Kevin Berger is the editor at large of Nautilus.

Kevin Berger

Why Ancient Greeks Might Have Had Much Different Colors Than We Do

Ian Chant

Geoscience

6 Places Where Earth Has Gone Color Crazy

Lily Bui

History

A Chemical Attack That Killed a Countryside & Scarred a People

Brandon Keim (<a href="https://brandonkeim.substack.com">Substack</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/9brandon/">Instagram</a> |<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/brandonkeim.bsky.social">Bluesky</a> | <a href="https://mastodon.social/home">Mastodon</a>) is a freelance journalist and contributing editor at Nautilus. His new book, <a href="https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324007081">Meet the Neighbors</a>, explores what the science of animal intelligence means for how we understand and live with the wild creatures around us.

Brandon Keim

A Butterfly’s Beauty Comes From Organized Chaos

Jen Kinney

Astronomy

Can “New Horizons” Bring a Crowdsourced Message From Earth to Aliens?

Jim Davies is a professor at the Department of Cognitive Science at Carleton University. He is co-host of the award-winning podcast Minding the Brain. His latest book is Being the Person Your Dog Thinks You Are: The Science of a Better You.

Jim Davies

Why the Dark Side of the Force Had to Be Dark

Alex Riley is an award-winning science writer and the author of <a href="https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324079187">Super Natural: How Life Thrives in Impossible Places</a>. He lives in south Devon, UK, with his family.

Alex Riley

Genetics

Red-Eyed Magpies, White-Speckled Ravens, & Other Birds of Unusual Feathers

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