Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) recently issued a memo which states: Cuba is not Venezuela. What does that mean? “The same people who keep ’57 Chevrolets on the...
Severe Weather: Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks August 12: Up to 100 Shooting Stars Per Hour Expected
Aug 11
The annual Perseid meteor shower reaches its magnificent peak on the night of August 12 into the early hours of August 13, producing up to … The post Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks August 12:...
A new look at the trees revealed an overlooked “win-win-win” scenario for forest maintenance The post Researchers Return to a Forgotten Forest Experiment 30 Years Later—With “Astounding”...
What on Earth for? The post The Soviets Drilled the Deepest Hole Ever appeared first on Nautilus.
Or, how cultural habits make Muppets of us all
Cosmic lesbian necromancers, cyberpunk Canterbury Tales, and so much more The post An Astrobiologist’s Guide to the Best Sci-Fi Reads appeared first on Nautilus.
We often see evolutionary theory as the enemy of religion. But in Darwin’s day, many scientists thought otherwise. Neo-Darwinism, today championed by atheists like Richard Dawkins, was founded...
The past, present, and future of this brilliant display The post Why the Perseids are the Most Famous Meteor Shower appeared first on Nautilus.
Until Shere Hite’s Report, even the most daring sexologists refused to listen to what women desired and hated in sex- by Rosa CampbellRead on Aeon
[This article is part of CAM’s commemoration of the anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb. See previous article here. It is of added relevance in light of the renewed risk of nuclear...
The long-awaited natural spectacle is finally here: the Total Solar Eclipse 2026. A rare total solar eclipse will sweep across Greenland, Iceland, and Spain on … The post Total Solar Eclipse...
It can discourage patients from pursuing treatment The post Why Doctors Telling Patients Their Symptoms Are “Normal” Can Backfire appeared first on Nautilus.
The crater could measure 100 feet in diameter The post Here’s the Crater SpaceX’s Rocket Left on the Moon appeared first on Nautilus.
one more time: human behavior is the product of incentives
Tiny antenna-like cell appendages play an outsized role The post Turtle Sex Determination Just Got a Lot Weirder appeared first on Nautilus.
A critique of sectarian Critical Theory
And you thought you were done with the three Rs The post 30 Minutes, 3 Exercises: A Routine for an Aging Brain appeared first on Nautilus.
A simple scaling law brings order to the chaos of flowing water, rock, and sediment. New findings have extended the law even further. The post Why Are Rivers So Mathematical? first appeared on...
Deep dreaming may be more in tune with the body than we thought The post When Dreaming Gets Your Heart Moving appeared first on Nautilus.
An unexpected way to go for a star 20 times the size of our sun The post This Supernova Death of a Star Broke All the Rules appeared first on Nautilus.
The universe contains trillions of planets, and scientists are more optimistic than ever that we are on the verge of finding life beyond Earth. But Christopher Cowie, Associate Professor in...
Aeon: Khosheutovsky khurul
Aug 10
The oldest Buddhist temple in Europe is an architectural anomaly, built in memory of the Kalmyk regiment that fought Napoleon- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon
Aeon: How we meet the future
Aug 10
If we couldn’t make generalisations, we would be paralysed by the world’s complexity. Does that ever excuse stereotyping?- by Tom RalstonRead on Aeon
Working with and living in spatially complex environments may help delay cognitive decline, though more research is needed The post Taxi Drivers Rarely Die of Alzheimer’s—How Complex Mental...
Protean: If I Had $1000000
Aug 08
Poet Isaac Pickell's "If I Had $1000000" imagines post-revolutionary intimacy that lasts "until you forget there ever was / a nightmare named gender // or a tortureporn called poverty." The post...
Nineteen years ago—in February 2007, during the Bush administration’s Axis of Evil regime and calls for attacks on Iran from members of Congress, including “Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran” (to the...
“It was all inside my head, but so was everything.”
We created our world, but it overwhelms us; we cannot grasp or control it.
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is off to a fantastic start The post New Observatory Captures More Than Half a Million Galaxies in a Single Image appeared first on Nautilus.
Cranial scans reveal a brain with clever sensory adaptations The post Inside the Not-So-Dumb Head of the Dodo Bird appeared first on Nautilus.
In "Parable of the Modern Day Hijrah," poet Isra Hassan reflects on the fraught meanings of pilgrimage in contemporary Islam. The post Parable of the Modern Day Hijrah appeared first on Protean...
Steven Wolfram claims that the "ruliad," the space of all possible computational states in nature, is reality—a structure so complete it contains every possible way of processing information....
And statins can help The post Viagra May Slow the Spread of Cancer appeared first on Nautilus.
