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Why Do So Many Scientists Want to be Filmmakers?

The problem with C.P. Snow’s famous two-cultures hypothesis.

March 20, 2018

Why Your Brain Hates Other People

And how to make it think differently.

June 16, 2017

Five Scientists on the Heroes Who Changed Their Lives

Meet the inspiring people—none named Einstein—who helped these scientists find their calling.

It’s Personal: Five Scientists on the Heroes Who Changed Their Lives

Meet the inspiring people—none named Einstein—who helped these scientists find their calling.

November 28, 2016

To Understand Facebook, Study Capgras Syndrome

This mental disorder gives us a unique insight into the digital age.

October 27, 2016

Caitlyn Jenner and Our Cognitive Dissonance

While biology shows us gender can be fluid, our brains struggle to see it that way.

August 31, 2015

Ingenious: Robert Sapolsky

The primatologist and neurologist talks turbulence—teens, stress, and the information age.

July 24, 2014

Dude, Where’s My Frontal Cortex?

There’s a method to the madness of the teenage brain.

June 25, 2014

On the Origin of Celebrity

Why Julia Roberts rules our world.

August 29, 2013

A Crowdsourced Expert Interview

Nautilus readers delve further into the idea that metaphors make us human.