Stanley Kubrick and Johannes Vermeer try to see eye-to-eye.

The Art of Painting

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Kevin Berger is the editor at large of Nautilus.

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A Poet of Science Who Shook Faith in God

Kristen French is an associate editor at Nautilus. She has worked in science journalism since 2013, reporting and writing features and news for publications such as Wired, Backchannel, The Verge, and New York Magazine. She has a masters degree in science journalism from Columbia University.

Kristen French

AI Art Is Human Art

Iyad Rahwan is a director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, where he founded and directs the Center for Humans &amp; Machines.

Iyad Rahwan

Azim Shariff is a professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia, where he directs the Centre for Applied Moral Psychology.

Azim Shariff

Jean-François Bonnefon is a CNRS research director, with affiliations to the Toulouse School of Economics, where he chairs the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences; the Toulouse School of Management; the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse of which he is the director; and the Artificial and Natural Intelligence Toulouse Institute where he is chair of moral artificial intelligence.

Jean-François Bonnefon

How Science Fiction Can Save Us

Jonny-James Kajoba and Michael Genet in Spare Parts. As their characters Ivan Shelley, an executive assistant, and Zeit Smith, a billionaire, they undergo a blood exchange. Photo by Russ Rowland

Money Can’t Buy You Youth

Namir Khaliq is a writer, film producer, and the founder of Protostellar Media, a science communication production company.

Namir Khaliq

The Books That Blew These Scientists’ Minds

I Turn Scientific Renderings of Space into Art

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Jake Currie is a writer based in Brooklyn, NY.

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Bob Grant is the deputy editor at Nautilus.

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The Birth of Genius

Devin Reese is the executive editor of Natural History and a science writer based in Alexandria, Virginia.