Schrödinger’s Cat When Nobody Is Looking - Issue 89: The Dark Side

Some of the most perplexing topics in physics revolve around quantum theory. The quandary is seen most famously in the Schrödinger’s… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 4 years ago

No, Animals Do Not Have Genders

How do we know that gender is not simply a biological fact? What makes it cultural, rather than analogous to sex-differentiated behavior… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 4 years ago

No, Animals Do Not Have Genders - Facts So Romantic

How do we know that gender is not simply a biological fact? What makes it cultural, rather than analogous to sex-differentiated behavior… | Continue reading


@Nautil.us | 4 years ago

No, Animals Do Not Have Genders - Facts So Romantic

How do we know that gender is not simply a biological fact? What makes it cultural, rather than analogous to sex-differentiated behavior… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 4 years ago

How Rising Education for Women Is Shaping the Global Population

 We need a global debate on the best way to respond to these demographic changes.Photo illustration by Arthimedes / ShutterstockIn… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 4 years ago

The Bias in the Machine

In January, Robert Williams, an African-American man, was wrongfully arrested due to an inaccurate facial recognition algorithm, a… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 4 years ago

The Universe Has Made Almost All the Stars It Will Ever Make

Our human world is soaked in light. For starters there are the 100,000 trillion photons arriving every second at every square centimeter… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 4 years ago

Just Because It’s Natural Doesn’t Mean It’s Good - Issue 89: The Dark Side

What do anti-vaxxers and anti-GMO campaigners have in common? Underpinning both “antis” is a shared belief that because vaccines… | Continue reading


@Nautil.us | 4 years ago

The Bias in the Machine - Issue 89: The Dark Side

In January, Robert Williams, an African-American man, was wrongfully arrested due to an inaccurate facial recognition algorithm, a… | Continue reading


@Nautil.us | 4 years ago

The Universe Has Made Almost All the Stars It Will Ever Make - Issue 89: The Dark Side

Our human world is soaked in light. For starters there are the 100,000 trillion photons arriving every second at every square centimeter… | Continue reading


@Nautil.us | 4 years ago

Just Because It’s Natural Doesn’t Mean It’s Good - Issue 89: The Dark Side

What do anti-vaxxers and anti-GMO campaigners have in common? Underpinning both “antis” is a shared belief that because vaccines… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 4 years ago

The Universe Has Made Almost All the Stars It Will Ever Make - Issue 89: The Dark Side

Our human world is soaked in light. For starters there are the 100,000 trillion photons arriving every second at every square centimeter… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 4 years ago

The Bias in the Machine - Issue 89: The Dark Side

In January, Robert Williams, an African-American man, was wrongfully arrested due to an inaccurate facial recognition algorithm, a… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 4 years ago

How Rising Education for Women Is Shaping the Global Population - Facts So Romantic

 We need a global debate on the best way to respond to these demographic changes.Photo illustration by Arthimedes / ShutterstockIn… | Continue reading


@Nautil.us | 4 years ago

How Rising Education for Women Is Shaping the Global Population - Facts So Romantic

We need a global debate on the best way to respond to these demographic changes.Photo illustration by Arthimedes / ShutterstockIn… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 4 years ago

3-D Printed Statues in Central Park Shine a Light on Women Scientists

 A new exhibit in Central Park features six statues of women scientists—the first statues of real women to be found in the park.Courtesy… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 4 years ago

3-D Printed Statues in Central Park Shine a Light on Women Scientists - Facts So Romantic

A new exhibit in Central Park features six statues of women scientists—the first statues of real women to be found in the park.Courtesy… | Continue reading


@Nautil.us | 4 years ago

3-D Printed Statues in Central Park Shine a Light on Women Scientists - Facts So Romantic

 A new exhibit in Central Park features six statues of women scientists—the first statues of real women to be found in the park.Courtesy… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 4 years ago

Vision Experiment Resolved a Centuries-Old Philosophical Debate

“We conclude,” the researchers wrote, “that objects have a remarkably persistent dual character: their objective shape ‘out… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 4 years ago

The Hard Problem of Breakfast

Over the past century, scientists have unlocked many of the most profound secrets of bacon, eggs, oatmeal, and avocado toast, advancing… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 4 years ago

The Anonymous Culture Cops of the Internet

This sort of research can, piece by piece, help reshape the online landscape so it isn’t quite so tribal and awash in misinformation… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 4 years ago

This Vision Experiment Resolved a Centuries-Old Philosophical Debate - Facts So Romantic

“We conclude,” the researchers wrote, “that objects have a remarkably persistent dual character: their objective shape ‘out… | Continue reading


@Nautil.us | 4 years ago

How Life Could Continue to Evolve

Once upon a time there was a molecule. That molecule, when it reacted with other molecules, set in motion a story that would result… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 4 years ago

This Vision Experiment Resolved a Centuries-Old Philosophical Debate - Facts So Romantic

“We conclude,” the researchers wrote, “that objects have a remarkably persistent dual character: their objective shape ‘out… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 4 years ago

Medical research director sees light at the end of the Covid-19 tunnel

The Twitter feed of Eric Topol, with nearly 300,000 followers, has become one of the go-to places for reliable updates on the COVID-19… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 4 years ago

Life Could Continue to Evolve

Once upon a time there was a molecule. That molecule, when it reacted with other molecules, set in motion a story that would result… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 4 years ago

The Anonymous Culture Cops of the Internet - Facts So Romantic

This sort of research can, piece by piece, help reshape the online landscape so it isn’t quite so tribal and awash in misinformation… | Continue reading


@Nautil.us | 4 years ago

The Anonymous Culture Cops of the Internet - Facts So Romantic

This sort of research can, piece by piece, help reshape the online landscape so it isn’t quite so tribal and awash in misinformation… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 4 years ago

The Hard Problem of Breakfast

Over the past century, scientists have unlocked many of the most profound secrets of bacon, eggs, oatmeal, and avocado toast, advancing… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 4 years ago

Gender Is What You Make of It

In July 1925, Margaret Mead, a doctoral student at Columbia University, set off on a cross-country train journey with a young faculty… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 4 years ago

Romantic Ideals Don’t Predict Who Your Future Partner Will Be

Last year, I briefly ran an analogue dating service. I’ll never know what inspired me to start it—maybe my stable relationship… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 4 years ago

Overcoming Us vs. Them (2017)

As a kid, I saw the 1968 version of Planet of the Apes. As a future primatologist, I was mesmerized. Years later I discovered an anecdote… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 4 years ago

How Should Society Judge a Defendant with a Brain Tumor?

After a visit from one of his patients in March, 1966, the psychiatrist Maurice Heatly noted, “This massive, muscular youth seemed… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 4 years ago

The Case for Rapid At-Home Covid Testing for Everyone

The time it takes to ship COVID test samples to central labs and back is a burden—people risk infection as they wait days, sometimes… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 4 years ago

The Case for Rapid At-Home COVID Testing for Everyone - Facts So Romantic

The time it takes to ship COVID test samples to central labs and back is a burden—people risk infection as they wait days, sometimes… | Continue reading


@Nautil.us | 4 years ago

The Case for Rapid At-Home COVID Testing for Everyone - Facts So Romantic

The time it takes to ship COVID test samples to central labs and back is a burden—people risk infection as they wait days, sometimes… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 4 years ago

The Most Important Object in Computer Graphics History Is This Teapot (2016)

Let’s play a game. I’ll show you a picture and a couple videos—just watch the first five seconds or so—and you figure out… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 4 years ago

The Man Who Tried to Redeem the World with Logic (2015)

Walter Pitts was used to being bullied. He’d been born into a tough family in Prohibition-era Detroit, where his father, a boiler-maker,… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 4 years ago

You Want to See My Data? I Thought We Were Friends

Stuart Ritchie is a Lecturer in the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at King’s College London. His new book, Science… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 4 years ago

You Want to See My Data? I Thought We Were Friends

Stuart Ritchie is a Lecturer in the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at King’s College London. His new book, Science… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 4 years ago

You Want to See My Data? I Thought We Were Friends! - Facts So Romantic

Stuart Ritchie is a Lecturer in the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at King’s College London. His new book, Science… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 4 years ago

Do We Need a Theory of Everything?

I get constantly asked if I could please comment on other people’s theories of everything. That could be Garrett Lisi’s E8 theory… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 4 years ago

Anthropologist Helen Fisher tells us what the biology of love is

Helen Fisher first appeared in Nautilus in 2015 with her article, “Casual Sex May Be Improving America’s Marriages.” Since then… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 4 years ago

The Brave New World of Chemical Romance

With Hamilton on my mind, I had a fanciful thought while reading the new book Love Drugs: The Chemical Future of Relationships. The… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 4 years ago

The Ecological Vision That Will Save Us

The marquee on my closed neighborhood movie theater reads, “See you on the other side.” I like reading it every day as I pass… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 4 years ago

Drugs today can cure a crushing love

In the 2004 film, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, a heartbroken man played by Jim Carrey undergoes an experimental treatment… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 4 years ago

Drugs today can cure a crushing love

In the 2004 film, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, a heartbroken man played by Jim Carrey undergoes an experimental treatment… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 4 years ago

The Brave New World of Chemical Romance

With Hamilton on my mind, I had a fanciful thought while reading the new book Love Drugs: The Chemical Future of Relationships. The… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 4 years ago