“A bit like dinosaurs on Earth—they were enormous and primitive” The post Monster Stars Roamed the Cosmos at the Dawn of Time appeared first on Nautilus.
Show Notes: Missing Teeth
Dec 19
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Ten books we loved to start your new year off right. The post The Nautilus Winter Reading List 2025 appeared first on Nautilus.
Taking stock of your foibles could extend your life The post Does Your Personality Put You At a Higher Risk of Dying? appeared first on Nautilus.
Study maps the deadly areas where birds cross paths with fishing vessels The post These Fatal Gauntlets Kill Thousands of Endangered Seabirds Every Year appeared first on Nautilus.
Mike Pompeo, CIA Director and Secretary of State in the first Trump administration, has long been a Ukraine war hawk, calling Russia’s actions genocide, stating that Crimea should be returned to...
In this superbly written essay, psychoanalyst Jamey Hecht engages in a virtual trialogue with philosophers John Searle and Thomas Nagel. He cogently argues, without any appeal to religious...
The Gaia telescope peeked through gas and dust to pick out the possible beginnings of new planets around infant stars The post These Baby Stars Have Mysterious Companions appeared first on Nautilus.
‘People are inchoate, irrational – constantly on the verge of discovering who they are and then swerving away at the last moment.’ Karan Mahajan on writing about politics in fiction, the...
THERE IS SUFFERING IN THE GARDEN.
How mathematically-paired elliptic curves enable efficient recursive cryptographic proofs
“Surprising Ethics” aims to be an accessible philosophy podcast. Can you tell us more about your mission and why you think philosophy should be made more understandable? Do you think podcasts...
The split Polar Vortex is forecast to enter a new recovery phase, helping to create a large shift in the weather patterns across the United … The post The Polar Vortex is forecast to enter a...
It isn’t because the Iberian Peninsula is dizzy The post Why Is Spain Spinning? appeared first on Nautilus.
Those who have this special skill may be better at weighing ambiguous cues The post What Makes Someone Good at Reading the Room? appeared first on Nautilus.
Sediment from a Roman military settlement revealed traces of parasites that trigger gastrointestinal distress, despite efforts to keep the ancient encampment clean The post Tiny Hints of Soldier...
In "Live Action Role Play," poet Christopher Blackman considers the linkages among LARPing, imperial decay, and the splendor of a full moon. The post Live Action Role Play appeared first on...
Nautilus: When We Were Lunch
Dec 18
How being food for other animals has made us into the humans we are today The post When We Were Lunch appeared first on Nautilus.
Exposing the chemicals that affect our health and behavior The post The Dark Matter of Food appeared first on Nautilus.
Nautilus: Eat Your Molecules
Dec 18
Food, food, food. Eat salmon, just not farmed. Wine is good for you. No, it’s not. Fasting boosts your immune system. Check that, it gives you migraines. Cottage cheese is the best protein. What...
As we prepare for Rhizome’s 30th anniversary, we’re taking an important step in the evolution of our approach to dynamic web archiving. Rhizome’s software infrastructure for...
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha The post Science Says … Laughter Is Contagious appeared first on Nautilus.
Astronomers witnessed the aftermath of not one but two collisions in space The post Cosmic Collision Caught on Camera appeared first on Nautilus.
The privilege of describing new species is skewed to Global Northerners The post Parachute Science Continues to Prevail in Global South Biodiversity Studies appeared first on Nautilus.
CovertAction: The Baltic Roots of Russophobia: Neoliberalism, Revisionism and U.S. Imperialism
Dec 18
The European Union (EU) has a population of 450 million people, yet its foreign policy is determined by a country with a population of 1.3 million people—Estonia. The High Representative of the...
At 40 years old, LeBron James is in the Kareem-Abdul-Jabbar-in-goggles phase of his career.
Explore a shape that can’t pass through itself, a teenage prodigy, and two new kinds of infinity. The post The Year in Mathematics first appeared on Quanta Magazine
How to Hide in Time When Space Has Been Captured
Andrew Holter interviews Mitchell Abidor on Abidor's new book, Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary, out from Pluto Press. "It seems like we in the English-speaking world, at least, have...
The Baffler: Mob Rules
Dec 18
Swindle or be swindled.
Why the stunning rhinoceros hornbills are the farmers of the rainforest and a powerful avian symbol of regeneration- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon
The discovery of organisms that have been alive for many thousands of years requires a revolution in how we understand life- by Karen G LloydRead on Aeon
If you’re looking for your genetic origin story, your DNA will only take you so far.
