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The Nautilus Winter Reading List 2025
Ten books we loved to start your new year off right. -
The Nautilus Reading List About the Cosmos
Our writers have read a universe of books on space and astronomy. Here are their favorites. -
The Nautilus Reading List About the Brain
These 10 books reveal how the brain is wider than the sky -
Visit the 7 Most Extreme Planets in the Universe
From molten glass rain to oceans of lava, an intergalactic tour of the most terrifying and beautiful climates out there -
The Nautilus Summer Reading List
10 of our favorite recent books
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How Neanderthals Kept Our Ancestors Warm
New DNA studies reveal more benefits from our hominin friends
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What the Tiny Cluster of Brain Cells in My Lab Are Telling Me
I’ve created organoids that, surprisingly, have a lot to say about how the brain works.
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The Original Natural Born Killers
In the 1920s, two murderers were defended by science. The infamous case still echoes.
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Meet Your Body’s Death Eaters
From brain to blood to bone, macrophages take out our cellular trash. -
Dress for Evolutionary Success
What makes us quintessentially human? Fashion!