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The continuum of geometric intuition from people to other primates The post Monkeys Interpret Shapes Similarly to Humans appeared first on Nautilus. | Continue reading
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More than 800 wildfires are currently active The post Radar Map Shows Wildfires in Canada Blanketing the US with Smoke appeared first on Nautilus. | Continue reading
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A Western diet is bad for us and bad for the planet The post How Eating Healthier Could Reshape Agriculture appeared first on Nautilus. | Continue reading
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3-D avatars of macaques fool their flesh-and-blood counterparts—up to point The post When Monkeys Enter the Uncanny Valley appeared first on Nautilus. | Continue reading
Cat-sized tyrannosaur hatchlings had lots and lots of siblings The post Small, Cheap, and Full of Teeth: Baby Tyrannosaurs Were Plentiful and Precocious appeared first on Nautilus. | Continue reading
It hijacks a common process present in all cells The post How This Emerging Tick-borne Virus Escapes Your Immune System appeared first on Nautilus. | Continue reading
People who can’t see images in their minds challenge an old philosophical standby The post What a Picture of a Dog Has to Do with Reason and Logic appeared first on Nautilus. | Continue reading
With the recent auction of arguably the most famous pen ever used off-Earth, we take a moment to reflect on the evolution of such cosmic utensils The post The Challenges of Writing in Space appeared first on Nautilus. | Continue reading
And now it’s come for the East Coast The post NASA Satellite Map Shows Stifling Heat Dome Squatting Over the United States appeared first on Nautilus. | Continue reading
It dripped from a tree in China about 385 million years ago The post This Is the Oldest Amber Ever Found appeared first on Nautilus. | Continue reading
It’s one of only a handful of new monkey species identified on the continent in the last 75 years The post New, Orange-Lipped Monkey Discovered in Africa appeared first on Nautilus. | Continue reading
The problem isn’t entirely health-related The post What’s Causing The Rise in Rural Mortality? appeared first on Nautilus. | Continue reading
The record sale of a T. rex skeleton begs the question The post Do Fossils Belong in Mansions or Museums? appeared first on Nautilus. | Continue reading
The developing brains of boys and girls light up differently when shown a face The post Can a Preteen’s Reaction to a Face Predict Their Future Social Lives? appeared first on Nautilus. | Continue reading
Today’s T. rex auction could be cause for concern The post How Dinosaur Skeletons Became So Expensive appeared first on Nautilus. | Continue reading
Inside the brain and aesthetic experience The post The Nautilus Guide to the Best Books on the Science of Art appeared first on Nautilus. | Continue reading
And it has a living relative The post This Prehistoric Giant Salamander Grew to Almost 4 Feet Long appeared first on Nautilus. | Continue reading
It killed the dreams of science-fiction fans, but kick-started decades of Martian exploration The post How Mariner 4 Rewrote What We Know About Mars appeared first on Nautilus. | Continue reading
So how are beehives in the US faring almost two decades on? The post The Fight Against Colony Collapse Disorder Started 19 Years Ago Today appeared first on Nautilus. | Continue reading
There’s at least one glaring exception The post Are Women Really Better at Multitasking Than Men? appeared first on Nautilus. | Continue reading
America is in the midst of a protein craze The post Confessions of a Reluctant Protein-Maxxer appeared first on Nautilus. | Continue reading
Cephalopods are loners, but they’re also intelligent The post How the Rule-Breaking Octopus Is Rewriting the Evolution of Intelligence appeared first on Nautilus. | Continue reading
Until, that is, large mammal extinctions forced them to diversify their meals The post Early Americans Pioneered the Keto Diet appeared first on Nautilus. | Continue reading
It’s vibes The post Here’s Why Some Humans Can Hear Super Low-Frequency Sounds appeared first on Nautilus. | Continue reading
A half a billion years ago, this organism preferred to bend to the right The post Was This Fossil Creature the First Right-Hander Ever? appeared first on Nautilus. | Continue reading
A 35-day expedition revealed hidden wonders of the deep The post See the Odd-Looking Barreleye Fish in Its Natural Habitat for the First Time appeared first on Nautilus. | Continue reading
DNA helped differentiate the venomous serpent from its closest relative The post A New Species of Pit Viper Emerges in the Himalayas appeared first on Nautilus. | Continue reading
Our cortical neurons may hold the key to our clever brains The post We May Owe Our Intelligence to Our Unique Neurons appeared first on Nautilus. | Continue reading
The custom apparatus lets the cybernetic insects breathe underwater The post Watch This Cyborg Cockroach Test Its New Diving Suit appeared first on Nautilus. | Continue reading
It’s become uniquely suited to handle below-freezing temperatures and a diet of poisonous plants The post How This Mouse Lives at a Higher Elevation Than Any Other Vertebrate appeared first on Nautilus. | Continue reading
A new study suggests almost all animal communication shares a common, slow rhythm The post If You Want Animals to Understand You, Speak Slowly appeared first on Nautilus. | Continue reading
A maternally inherited bacteria that turns males into females is foiled by a brief warm spell The post How a Heat Wave Disturbs Generations of This Sex-Changing Spider appeared first on Nautilus. | Continue reading
A natural experiment in sun-scorched Australia points the way The post Can We Geoengineer Our Way Out of a Super El Nino? appeared first on Nautilus. | Continue reading
Is a new image of star systems colliding a vision of our Milky Way’s future? The post When Galaxies Clash appeared first on Nautilus. | Continue reading
Differing gene expression patterns could be to blame The post Why Do Men Develop Parkinson’s Disease More Often Than Women? appeared first on Nautilus. | Continue reading
The chemical substance behind these visions isn’t like any other known to science The post Hunting for a New Hallucinogen in the Lilliputian Psychedelic appeared first on Nautilus. | Continue reading
The science behind nature’s different puncture tools The post The Surprising Evolutionary Trade-offs Between Fangs, Stingers, and Claws appeared first on Nautilus. | Continue reading
It takes intelligence to get things spectacularly wrong. An essay on our undoing. The post What Makes Humans Stupid appeared first on Nautilus. | Continue reading
Abuse, neglect, and loss can reverberate in a partner’s behavior The post Childhood Trauma Echoes Through Romantic Relationships appeared first on Nautilus. | Continue reading
Researchers have discovered that our galaxy’s outermost spiral arms are wide open and farther away than we thought The post The Loving Embrace of the Milky Way appeared first on Nautilus. | Continue reading