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Nautilus

Jesse Dunietz

Technology

How Big Data Creates False Confidence

David Shultz

Psychology

When Does Dark Humor Stop Being Funny?

Ramin Skibba

Economics

Mining in Space Could Lead to Conflicts on Earth

Cody Delistraty

Happiness Is About Living the Good Life—However You Define It

Daniel Oberhaus

Zoology

Dolphins Are Helping Us Hunt for Aliens

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

Matchmaking Algorithms Are Unraveling the Causes of Rare Genetic Diseases

Emily Temple-Wood

History

It’s Time These Ancient Women Scientists Get Their Due

Zach St. George

Environment

There’s Plenty of Space for One Trillion More Trees

Ayalur Krishnan

Philosophy

How a Hypothesis Can Be Neither True Nor False

Virat Markandeya

The Strange Ecosystem in the Sea: Dead Whales

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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