Amanda Knox promotes her new book “Waiting to Be Heard” on “Good Morning America” on May 1, 2013.Photo by Taylor Hill/FilmMagicHuman nature is one of those aspects of the world…

If you dropped a dozen human toddlers on a beautiful Polynesian island with shelter and enough to eat, but no computers, no cell phones, and no metal tools, would they grow up to be…

Picture one of those ascent-of-man charts that depict a progression of profiles, from an ape walking on all fours to a slumped hominid to a modern human standing erect. What’s missing?…

 Andrey Petrovich had given up all hope when the videophone rang.“Hello, I saw your ad. You give private literature lessons?” Andrey Petrovich peered at the man on the screen.…

On the second balmy day of the year in New York, Neil Harbisson, a Catalan artist, musician, and self-professed “cyborg,” walked into a café in the Nolita district of Manhattan.…

Welcome to Nautilus’ blog, “Facts So Romantic”! The name, if you didn’t see the note on the blog’s homepage, refers to a quote from Jules Verne: “Reality provides us with…

Curled up in a wooden chair with an embroidered quilt over her head, 8-year-old Carol Frischmann held an old-fashioned flashlight to her favorite book. The quilt, white with a rose…

The living nautilus actually lives only in the outermost, largest chamber of its shell. As it grows, it continually builds larger and larger chambers, leaving the smaller ones behind.…