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Nautilus

Natalie Wolchover

Physics

Can Analogies Reveal the Laws of Physics?

Kevin Hartnett

Math

Why Mathematicians Can’t Find the Hay in a Haystack

Katia Moskvitch

A Short History of the Missing Universe

Laura Sanders

Neuroscience

Insects and the Meaning of Sleep

Bridget Alex is a science journalist and anthropologist based in Somerville, MA. Her writing has appeared in outlets including Discover, Science, and Archaeology. She is also a lecturer at Harvard University.

Bridget Alex

History

Why Did the Ancients Bury Their Dogs like Family Members?

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>.

Brian Gallagher

Arts

The Heart of Musical Experience Is Expectation

Paul M. Sutter is a research professor in astrophysics at the Institute for Advanced Computational Science at Stony Brook University and a guest researcher at the Flatiron Institute in New York City. He is the author of Your Place in the Universe: Understanding our Big, Messy Existence.

Paul M. Sutter

The Case for Dancing Astrophysics

Charlie Wood

The Strange Numbers That Birthed Modern Algebra

<a href="https://www.joelfrohlich.com/">Joel Frohlich</a> is a neuroscientist and postdoctoral researcher studying brain stimulation at the University of Tübingen’s Institute for Neuromodulation and Neurotechnology in Germany. Before moving to Germany from the United States, he spent three years as a postdoctoral researcher studying consciousness in the laboratory of Martin Monti at UCLA.

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Can Analogies Reveal the Laws of Physics?

Why Mathematicians Can’t Find the Hay in a Haystack

A Short History of the Missing Universe

Insects and the Meaning of Sleep

Why Did the Ancients Bury Their Dogs like Family Members?

The Heart of Musical Experience Is Expectation

The Case for Dancing Astrophysics

The Strange Numbers That Birthed Modern Algebra

Should You Get an AI Nanny for Your Child?

Why the Tiny Weight of Empty Space Is Such a Huge Mystery

How to Use the Large Hadron Collider to Search for Dark Matter

A Better Way to Cancel Noise