How to Fix the Vaccine Rollout

At a moment when vaccines promise to end the coronavirus pandemic, emerging new variants threaten to accelerate it. The astonishingly… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 3 years ago

Is Life Special Just Because It’s Rare?

A rocket powered by kerosene and liquid oxygen and carrying a scientific observatory blasted off into space at 10:49 p.m., March 6,… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 3 years ago

Is Life Special Just Because It’s Rare?

A rocket powered by kerosene and liquid oxygen and carrying a scientific observatory blasted off into space at 10:49 p.m., March 6,… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 3 years ago

Who Said Nobody Read Isaac Newton?

The central university library at Cambridge, in the United Kingdom, is an imposing, towered building known affectionately for being… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 3 years ago

How to Fix the Vaccine Rollout - Issue 95: Escape

At a moment when vaccines promise to end the coronavirus pandemic, emerging new variants threaten to accelerate it. The astonishingly… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 3 years ago

We Crush, Poison, and Destroy Insects at Our Own Peril - Issue 95: Escape

This past summer, my wife and I ventured to an area near Mount Adams in southwestern Washington state to census bumblebees. We camped… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 3 years ago

Who Said Nobody Read Isaac Newton? - Issue 95: Escape

The central university library at Cambridge, in the United Kingdom, is an imposing, towered building known affectionately for being… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 3 years ago

Is Life Special Just Because It’s Rare? - Issue 95: Escape

A rocket powered by kerosene and liquid oxygen and carrying a scientific observatory blasted off into space at 10:49 p.m., March 6,… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 3 years ago

We Crush, Poison, and Destroy Insects at Our Own Peril - Issue 95: Escape

This past summer, my wife and I ventured to an area near Mount Adams in southwestern Washington state to census bumblebees. We camped… | Continue reading


@Nautil.us | 3 years ago

How to Fix the Vaccine Rollout - Issue 95: Escape

At a moment when vaccines promise to end the coronavirus pandemic, emerging new variants threaten to accelerate it. The astonishingly… | Continue reading


@Nautil.us | 3 years ago

Is Life Special Just Because It’s Rare? - Issue 95: Escape

A rocket powered by kerosene and liquid oxygen and carrying a scientific observatory blasted off into space at 10:49 p.m., March 6,… | Continue reading


@Nautil.us | 3 years ago

Who Said Nobody Read Isaac Newton? - Issue 95: Escape

The central university library at Cambridge, in the United Kingdom, is an imposing, towered building known affectionately for being… | Continue reading


@Nautil.us | 3 years ago

Why a Universal Society Is Unattainable

On Jan. 1, 2021, five long years after the vote for what’s become known as Brexit, and numerous marches before and after that national… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 3 years ago

Why Horror Films Are More Popular Than Ever

2020 was a bad year for just about everything—except horror. Horror films were wildly popular on streaming platforms over the past… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 3 years ago

Can You Treat Loneliness by Creating an Imaginary Friend?

Tulpamancers imagine talking to the tulpa, sometimes for more than an hour a day, and eventually, perhaps after several months, the… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 3 years ago

Space Isn’t What You Think It Is (2017)

Ask a group of physicists and philosophers to define “space” and you will likely be stuck in a long discussion that involves deep-sounding… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 3 years ago

Dreaming Is Like Taking LSD

Without a doubt, the biggest questions about dreaming are all variants on this question: Why do we dream? We began studying dreaming… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 3 years ago

Can You Treat Loneliness By Creating an Imaginary Friend? - Facts So Romantic

Tulpamancers imagine talking to the tulpa, sometimes for more than an hour a day, and eventually, perhaps after several months, the… | Continue reading


@Nautil.us | 3 years ago

Can You Treat Loneliness By Creating an Imaginary Friend? - Facts So Romantic

Tulpamancers imagine talking to the tulpa, sometimes for more than an hour a day, and eventually, perhaps after several months, the… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 3 years ago

Learning Chess at 40

My 4-year-old daughter and I were deep into a game of checkers one day about three years ago when her eye drifted to a nearby table.… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 3 years ago

Why Horror Films Are More Popular Than Ever

2020 was a bad year for just about everything—except horror. Horror films were wildly popular on streaming platforms over the past… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 3 years ago

Dreaming Is Like Taking LSD

Without a doubt, the biggest questions about dreaming are all variants on this question: Why do we dream? We began studying dreaming… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 3 years ago

Why a Universal Society Is Unattainable

On Jan. 1, 2021, five long years after the vote for what’s become known as Brexit, and numerous marches before and after that national… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 3 years ago

Why Horror Films Are More Popular Than Ever - Issue 95: Escape

2020 was a bad year for just about everything—except horror. Horror films were wildly popular on streaming platforms over the past… | Continue reading


@Nautil.us | 3 years ago

Dreaming Is Like Taking LSD - Issue 95: Escape

Without a doubt, the biggest questions about dreaming are all variants on this question: Why do we dream? We began studying dreaming… | Continue reading


@Nautil.us | 3 years ago

Why a Universal Society Is Unattainable - Issue 95: Escape

On Jan. 1, 2021, five long years after the vote for what’s become known as Brexit, and numerous marches before and after that national… | Continue reading


@Nautil.us | 3 years ago

Why Horror Films Are More Popular Than Ever - Issue 95: Escape

2020 was a bad year for just about everything—except horror. Horror films were wildly popular on streaming platforms over the past… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 3 years ago

Dreaming Is Like Taking LSD - Issue 95: Escape

Without a doubt, the biggest questions about dreaming are all variants on this question: Why do we dream? We began studying dreaming… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 3 years ago

Why a Universal Society Is Unattainable - Issue 95: Escape

On Jan. 1, 2021, five long years after the vote for what’s become known as Brexit, and numerous marches before and after that national… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 3 years ago

A Breakthrough in Measuring the Building Blocks of Nature - Facts So Romantic

An artistic rendering of the quarks and gluons that make up a proton.Illustration by D. Dominguez / CERNIn a recent experiment done… | Continue reading


@Nautil.us | 3 years ago

A Breakthrough in Measuring the Building Blocks of Nature - Facts So Romantic

An artistic rendering of the quarks and gluons that make up a proton.Illustration by D. Dominguez / CERNIn a recent experiment done… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 3 years ago

We Didn’t Evolve for This - Issue 94: Evolving

When a Weddell seal, native to Antarctica, plummets 400 meters beneath the ice on one of its hour-long dives, an ensemble of adaptations… | Continue reading


@Nautil.us | 3 years ago

Humans Have Gotten Nicer and Better at Making War - Issue 94: Evolving

In 1991 two hikers in the Italian Alps stumbled on a mummified body buried in the ice. The Iceman, it turned out, died more than 5,000… | Continue reading


@Nautil.us | 3 years ago

Humans Have Rights and So Should Nature - Issue 94: Evolving

Humans once lived in harmony with the natural world. Consider timekeeping. Until relatively recently, the human notion of time was… | Continue reading


@Nautil.us | 3 years ago

Humans Have Gotten Nicer and Better at Making War - Issue 94: Evolving

In 1991 two hikers in the Italian Alps stumbled on a mummified body buried in the ice. The Iceman, it turned out, died more than 5,000… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 3 years ago

We Didn’t Evolve for This - Issue 94: Evolving

When a Weddell seal, native to Antarctica, plummets 400 meters beneath the ice on one of its hour-long dives, an ensemble of adaptations… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 3 years ago

Humans Have Rights and So Should Nature - Issue 94: Evolving

Humans once lived in harmony with the natural world. Consider timekeeping. Until relatively recently, the human notion of time was… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 3 years ago

Electrons May Well Be Conscious

Happy Holidays. This week we are reprinting our top stories of 2020. This article first appeared online in our Facts So Romantic… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 3 years ago

Why Birds Can Fly over Mount Everest

Happy Holidays. This week we are reprinting our top stories of 2020. This article first appeared online in our “Energy” issue… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 3 years ago

We’re the Cosmic 1 Percent But Our Solar System Isn’t a Complete Weirdo - Facts So Romantic

About half of all stars seem to have “super-Earth” planets on orbits closer to their stars than Mercury is to the Sun, but we… | Continue reading


@Nautil.us | 3 years ago

We’re the Cosmic 1 Percent But Our Solar System Isn’t a Complete Weirdo - Facts So Romantic

About half of all stars seem to have “super-Earth” planets on orbits closer to their stars than Mercury is to the Sun, but we… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 3 years ago

How to Talk Like a Physicist

Theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder, who probably is the smartest person on her block, has fun in her latest video skewering… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 3 years ago

How to Talk Like a Physicist

Theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder, who probably is the smartest person on her block, has fun in her latest video skewering… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 3 years ago

How to Talk Like a Physicist - Facts So Romantic

Theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder, who probably is the smartest person on her block, has fun in her latest video skewering… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 3 years ago

How to Talk Like a Physicist - Facts So Romantic

Theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder, who probably is the smartest person on her block, has fun in her latest video skewering… | Continue reading


@Nautil.us | 3 years ago

A Nuclear Submarine Officer Learned to Live in Tight Quarters

Happy Holidays. This week we are reprinting our top stories of 2020. This article first appeared online in our “Outbreak” issue… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 3 years ago

A Man Who Saw the Pandemic Coming

Happy Holidays. This week we are reprinting our top stories of 2020. This article first appeared online in our “Intelligence”… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 3 years ago

An Existential Crisis in Neuroscience

Happy Holidays. This week we are reprinting our top stories of 2020. This article first appeared online in our “Maps” issue in… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 3 years ago