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  • Article Recirculation Lead Image

    Inside an Exploded Star

    Cassiopeia A gets a close-up.
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    Automatic for the Oceans

    A rock trio on the rise is raising environmental awareness.
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    Join Nautilus Live—Get the Truth About Sun Exposure

    Join us at noon on Monday, June 9, when editor in chief Michael Segal will host a live video chat with award-winning journalist and NYU professor, Jessica Seigel about her latest Nautilus piece, “America Is Getting the Science of Sun Exposure Wrong.”There are two ways to participate. You can send us your questions before the […]
  • Forest-for-the-Trees

    Forest for the Trees—Why We Recognize Faces & Constellations

    A Ganado-style Navajo rugNational Park Service For many thousands of years, and across cultures around the world, symmetry has been seen as beautiful. The mirror-image accuracy of the Parthenon is seen also in the Taj Mahal and the geometric patterns of traditional Navajo rugs. We see symmetry in more fluid, modern media, too, like the […]
  • The Universe, Expanding Symmetrically

    The Universe, Expanding Symmetrically and Eternally

     Two months ago, we learned of landmark evidence bolstering the theory of inflation, a period very soon after the Big Bang when the Universe expanded at a terrific rate, stretching out and smoothing its lumps, and making it remarkably consistent on large scales. A recent study confirms that, even 13.8 billion years after the era […]
  • White Holes

    “White Holes” Could Exist—But That Doesn’t Mean They Do

     A black hole is a one-way door to oblivion. According to general relativity, once anything crosses its boundary—the event horizon—it cannot return to the outside. For that particle, the black hole is the entire future. Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . We’ll never actually get a chance to see […]
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    Third Data Server From the Sun

    The Earth is becoming a computer visible across galactic distance.
  • Jabr_HERO

    Half Male, Half Female, Total Animal

    Mixed-sex animals teach us about our own multifarious nature.
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    “We Are Visual Animals, Driven By Images”

    The head of the Max Planck Society discusses the science of creative visualization.
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    Picasso and Einstein Got the Picture

    Breakthroughs in science and art begin with an image.