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Nautilus

David Kaiser

History

How Einstein and Schrödinger Conspired to Kill a Cat

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

Physics

Lawrence Krauss Versus Freeman Dyson on Gravitons

Sean Raymond is an American astrophysicist working at the <a href="https://astrophy.u-bordeaux.fr/?lang=en">Bordeaux Astrophysical Laboratory</a> in France. He also writes a blog at the interface of science and fiction (<a href="https://planetplanet.net/">planetplanet.net</a>) and published a <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08LFZZWGZ">book of astronomy poems</a>.

Sean Raymond

Astronomy

A Cosmic Crash May Have Made the Moon

Claudia Geib

Benchtop Black Holes Help Physicists Glimpse the Quantum Universe

Walt Pickut

How the Blind See the Stars

Our Nearest Star Has a Planet, and These Are the Ways It Could Be Habitable

Chris Drudge

To Measure the Power of Lightning, Get a Shovel

Anna Nowogrodzki

Environment

Climate Change Has Produced a New Underwater Sound Superhighway

Geoscience

7 Ways Humans Have Tried to Predict Earthquakes

Aristotle at the Gigafactory: Why Physics Is a Philosophy

Pierre Bienaimé

Arts

DJs Are Dropping Beats From Deep Space

A New Explanation for One of the Strangest Occurrences in Nature: Ball Lightning

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