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- History
The Brilliant “Baloney Slicer” That Started the Digital Age
- By Venkat Srinivasan
- February 16, 2015
How the hard disk drive married two very powerful concepts.
- Zoology
Seeing Electricity, Hearing Magnetism & Other Sensory Feats
- By Sarah Zhang
- January 7, 2015
For elephants, feet are sensory organs.Martin Harvey, Getty Images Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . It’s pretty obvious that dogs have sharper ears and cats a keener sense of smell than we do. But as powerful these senses are, they are merely keener versions of the ones we humans […]