There’s at least one glaring exception The post Are Women Really Better at Multitasking Than Men? appeared first on Nautilus.
America is in the midst of a protein craze The post Confessions of a Reluctant Protein-Maxxer appeared first on Nautilus.
The three intelligence agencies later teamed to empower an even worse Ugandan dictator—Yoweri Museveni [This article is part of CovertAction Magazine’s attempts to expose the CIA’s horrible...
An invisible difference in 10% of humans poses deep mysteries in several fields at once. The post Why Am I Left-Handed? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
The lasting image of the now-completed FX series The Bear, for me, will always be the fourth season spectacle of the entire cast sitting under the world’s largest banquet table.
The ‘worst’ and ‘best possible’ job at once: what it’s like to dedicate your life to documenting crimes against humanity- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon
Aeon: Unmothered
Jul 13
We are each a living story, written with those who raised us. But when my most loving co-author ghosted me, my story fractured- by David RobsonRead on Aeon
Idris Robinson’s Political TheologyJuliana Spahr Hours after John Brown was executed for his failed raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859, Thoreau called him “an angel of light.” Louis Ransom (in...
The first time I walked into her office, I was out of breath. I had gone six whole months without really good supervision, and my early-career clinical load was starting to break me. The...
Notes on Isolation, Lovecraftian Fish Cakes, Broken Friendships, and Brutality
The rich are rich also because the poor are poor
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.
Until, that is, large mammal extinctions forced them to diversify their meals The post Early Americans Pioneered the Keto Diet appeared first on Nautilus.
It’s vibes The post Here’s Why Some Humans Can Hear Super Low-Frequency Sounds appeared first on Nautilus.
The OPEN Foundation and the Essentia Foundation together hosted a panel debate on metaphysics at the latest Interdisciplinary Conference on Psychedelic Research (ICPR26), Europe's leading...
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.
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Researchers thought that what enabled complex fluids to break apart was their elasticity. But a crack in a nonelastic simple fluid has them questioning that idea. The post We Know Simple Fluids...
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.
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Aeon: Lore of the rings
Jul 10
Trees contain an archive – tales of planetary shifts, cosmic events, historical pivots – that we’re only just unlocking- by Valerie TrouetRead on Aeon
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.
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.
The custom apparatus lets the cybernetic insects breathe underwater The post Watch This Cyborg Cockroach Test Its New Diving Suit appeared first on Nautilus.
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...
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.
As the Trump administration and the U.S. Congress continue to ramp up rhetoric of “China is our enemy,” 2026 is the 30th year that the United States has organized the largest naval war...
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.
Astronomer David Kipping discusses why claims of extraterrestrial life keep dissolving under scrutiny, why we need a more statistically grounded approach to searching for life beyond Earth, and...
Most buildings rise from the bottom up, stone by stone. Not so these churches: carved from a single rock, top-to-bottom- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon
From confirmation bias to loss aversion, everyone suffers from cognitive biases. Skilfully targeted mindfulness can help- by Stephanie DoraisRead on Aeon
Flora Arnold and Lauren Hough review Annie McClanahan's “Beneath the Wage: Tips, Tasks, and Gigs in the Age of Service Work,” which theorizes a new conceptual role for tipwork and piecework....
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.
