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The Nautilus Summer Reading List
10 of our favorite recent books -
The Woman Behind the World’s Biggest Camera
Vera Rubin overcame abundant obstacles to become a leading light in cosmology -
How To Tell If You’re Dead
The line between life and death has never been clear—and modern technology blurs it further -
How These Fish Lost Their Memory
The unexpected consequences of harvesting old, wise fish -
Conspiracy Theorists Can Be Deprogrammed
AI-delivered evidence might be better at changing minds than you are
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Why Elephants Rarely Get Cancer
What snakes, ferrets, and elephants are revealing about cancer resistance
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Meet My Pal, the Ancient Philosopher
How friendship with long-dead thinkers can help us live better.
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Why We Ghost
The psychology of people who cut off all communication—and how that affects their partners.
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If You Meet ET in Space, Kill Him
Should an alien species resist, we will have discovered life. -
Einstein’s Other Theory of Everything
After Einstein explained gravity as a consequence of curved spacetime, he tried to explain matter the same way. -
Why Computers Will Never Write Good Novels
The power of narrative flows only from the human brain. -
Did Grief Give Him Parkinson’s?
These identical twins led virtually identical lives—with one tragic exception.
