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Geology Makes You Time-Literate

A scientist tells us how her field instills timefulness.

September 12, 2018

Thomas Kuhn Threw an Ashtray at Me

Why Errol Morris is still outraged by the famous philosopher of science.

August 22, 2018

Does Theranos Mark the Peak of the Silicon Valley Bubble?

John Carreyrou talks to Nautilus about the lessons of a $1 billion fraud.

May 29, 2018

How My Nobel Dream Bit the Dust

My team thought we’d proved cosmological inflation. We were wrong.

April 13, 2018

Why Garbage Science Gets Published

Predatory journals keep the pseudoscience flowing.

The Inflated Debate Over Cosmic Inflation

Why the majority of physicists are on one side of a recent exchange of letters.

May 30, 2017

Why These Researchers Are Drawn to the World’s Edge

The joy and toll of doing remote science.

February 21, 2017

Why Fake Data When You Can Fake a Scientist?

Making up names and CVs is one of the latest tricks to game scientific metrics.

What Counts as Science?

The arXiv preprint service is trying to answer an age-old question.

October 13, 2016

The Lessons of a Ghost Planet

Vulcan shows us science beyond the scientific method.

June 16, 2016

Ingenious: Nathaniel Comfort

The science historian talks to Nautilus.

June 16, 2016

Why Is Biomedical Research So Conservative?

Funding, incentives, and skepticism of theory make some scientists play it safe.

May 27, 2016