Some of the most perplexing topics in physics revolve around quantum theory. The quandary is seen most famously in the Schrödinger’s… | Continue reading
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
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
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
We need a global debate on the best way to respond to these demographic changes.Photo illustration by Arthimedes / ShutterstockIn… | Continue reading
In January, Robert Williams, an African-American man, was wrongfully arrested due to an inaccurate facial recognition algorithm, a… | Continue reading
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
What do anti-vaxxers and anti-GMO campaigners have in common? Underpinning both “antis” is a shared belief that because vaccines… | Continue reading
In January, Robert Williams, an African-American man, was wrongfully arrested due to an inaccurate facial recognition algorithm, a… | Continue reading
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
What do anti-vaxxers and anti-GMO campaigners have in common? Underpinning both “antis” is a shared belief that because vaccines… | Continue reading
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
In January, Robert Williams, an African-American man, was wrongfully arrested due to an inaccurate facial recognition algorithm, a… | Continue reading
We need a global debate on the best way to respond to these demographic changes.Photo illustration by Arthimedes / ShutterstockIn… | Continue reading
We need a global debate on the best way to respond to these demographic changes.Photo illustration by Arthimedes / ShutterstockIn… | Continue reading
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
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
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
“We conclude,” the researchers wrote, “that objects have a remarkably persistent dual character: their objective shape ‘out… | Continue reading
Over the past century, scientists have unlocked many of the most profound secrets of bacon, eggs, oatmeal, and avocado toast, advancing… | Continue reading
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
“We conclude,” the researchers wrote, “that objects have a remarkably persistent dual character: their objective shape ‘out… | Continue reading
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
“We conclude,” the researchers wrote, “that objects have a remarkably persistent dual character: their objective shape ‘out… | Continue reading
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
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
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
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
Over the past century, scientists have unlocked many of the most profound secrets of bacon, eggs, oatmeal, and avocado toast, advancing… | Continue reading
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
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
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
After a visit from one of his patients in March, 1966, the psychiatrist Maurice Heatly noted, “This massive, muscular youth seemed… | Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
Stuart Ritchie is a Lecturer in the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at King’s College London. His new book, Science… | Continue reading
Stuart Ritchie is a Lecturer in the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at King’s College London. His new book, Science… | Continue reading
Stuart Ritchie is a Lecturer in the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at King’s College London. His new book, Science… | Continue reading
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
Helen Fisher first appeared in Nautilus in 2015 with her article, “Casual Sex May Be Improving America’s Marriages.” Since then… | Continue reading
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
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
In the 2004 film, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, a heartbroken man played by Jim Carrey undergoes an experimental treatment… | Continue reading
In the 2004 film, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, a heartbroken man played by Jim Carrey undergoes an experimental treatment… | Continue reading
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