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Nautilus

Tyler J. Kelley

Microbiology

In the “Black Mayonnaise” of Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal, Alien Life Is Being Born

Kristen French is an associate editor at Nautilus. She has worked in science journalism since 2013, reporting and writing features and news for publications such as Wired, Backchannel, The Verge, and New York Magazine. She has a masters degree in science journalism from Columbia University.

Kristen French

Health

How to Adapt to Your Face Transplant

Susie Neilson

Communication

How a Country’s Land Shapes Its Language

Jeremy Yoder

Genetics

Annotations on a Tweet-Storm Directed More-or-Less Toward Neil deGrasse Tyson

Zach Zorich

Evolution

Can Life Ever Be Perfectly Adapted to Its Environment?

Daniel A. Gross

Neuroscience

Your Brain’s Music Circuit Has Been Discovered

Grigori Guitchounts is a neuroscientist, AI researcher, and a senior associate at Flagship Pioneering, working on AI and machine learning.

Grigori Guitchounts

Why Neuroscientists Need to Study the Crow

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

Philosophy

What It Feels Like to Be an Octopus

Lorraine Boissoneault

Zoology

Ecologists Can’t Beat Invasive Species, So They’re Joining Them

Brian Gallagher is an associate editor at Nautilus. Follow him on X (formerly known as Twitter) <a href="https://twitter.com/bsgallagher/" rel="noopener">@bsgallagher</a>.

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