Communication
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A Little Bit of Science Knowledge Is a Dangerous Thing
You might not know as much about science as you think.
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Your 🧠 On Emoji
It’s complicated. And that’s good.
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When Sowing Fear Is a Public Service
Nuclear winter is scary as hell. Spread the word.
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The Cellist and the Physicist
A conversation between Yo-Yo Ma and Fabiola Gianotti.
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Welcome to The Porthole
Short sharp looks at science.
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The Comet Year
What the COVID-19 pandemic portends.
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The Most Beautiful Science of the Year
The best things we learned at Nautilus in 2022.
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How Shannon Entropy Imposes Fundamental Limits on Communication
What’s a message, really? Claude Shannon recognized that the elemental ingredient is surprise.
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The Trouble With “The Big Bang”
A rash of recent articles illustrates a longstanding confusion over the famous term.
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The Case for Popularizing Ocean Science
Why Schmidt Ocean Institute’s Carlie Wiener thinks octopuses and science fiction matter to ocean conservation.
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A Surprising Side of Carl Sagan
In Contact, the great science advocate posed a religious question about the cosmos.
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Mysteries Are to Be Embraced, But Also to Be Solved
Science doesn’t rob the world of wonder. It amplifies it.
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A Voice for Minorities in Aquaculture
Imani Black is working to bring people of color into marine conservation and production.
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We Better Think Twice About What We Say to ET
Extraterrestrials could take our intergalactic message in entirely the wrong way.
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How Putin’s War Is Sinking Climate Science
An American journalist leaves Russia as war breaks up the international collaboration key to climate research in the Arctic.
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The Ocean Explorer Who Wants Us to Reconnect with Nature
High 5 to Barbara Veiga: activist, photographer, and filmmaker.
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How Speeding up Science Aided the Fight Against COVID-19
High throughput technology is central to the COVID-19 fight.
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Talking Pop Science with Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder
As abstract as it is, physics enriches your life.Image via Sabine Hossenfelder / YouTube Science without the gobbledygook.” That’s the name, and promise, of Sabine Hossenfelder’s YouTube show. The German theoretical physicist, whose main gig is as a Research Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, has attracted over 300,000 subscribers. Her videos—some of […]
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Bringing Activism Home to Roost
Middle school filmmaker spotlights the plight of birds in his home state.
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Youth Activists Push Schools’ Retirement Fund to Divest
Redford Center Stories highest distinction film focuses on the financial side of fighting climate change.
