It’s always good to have the option of some peace and quiet The post These New Snails Can Slam Shut Their Shells Like Doors appeared first on Nautilus.
Maybe there are a few things we can still learn from it The post This Is the Oldest Peace Treaty Ever Discovered appeared first on Nautilus.
This new technique could be a huge leap forward for age-related brain research The post Blood Cells From an 80-Year-Old Transformed into Young Brain Cells appeared first on Nautilus.
Poet Will Dowd let Jorge Luis Borges speak to him in his sleep The post I Seeded My Dreams and This Story Emerged appeared first on Nautilus.
A mathematical mechanism enables AI models to process language at scale, undergirding the current AI revolution. Our columnist asks: Why is attention the key? The post Is ‘Attention’ the Essence...
On August 3, Alfonso Fanjul, Jr., passed away at the age of 89. A New York Times obituary called Mr. Fanjul (aka “Alfy”) the “patriarch of a family that lost one of Cuba’s largest sugar businesses...
Probability alone can’t tell us how risky something is. When Alex Honnold free solo climbed El Capitan with no safety equipment, that was incredibly risky, despite Honnold’s superlative skill and...
Built from vegetal materials, these majestic tombs housing Buganda kings bridge the realms of living and dead in Uganda- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon
If the question makes no sense to you, try spending some time with the principle of sufficient reason- by Sam Kimpton-NyeRead on Aeon
The Specter Haunting PsychoanalysisA DOSSIER OF TEXTS BY ELENA COMAY DEL JUNCO, MAX FOX, YAHYA MADRA, HANNAH PROCTOR, GHALYA SAADAWI, NICA SIEGEL, JULIANA SPAHR, AND GABRIEL TUPINAMBÁ, GATHERED BY...
The 388 and Psychoanalytic Treatment for PsychosisTracy McNulty Danielle Bergeron, Lucie Cantin, and Willy Apollon. Photo by Jocelyn Riendeau. In January 2025, the psychoanalytic community learned...
Astronomers pinpoint the origin of a 10 billion‑year‑old millisecond signal from space The post A Distant Planet Emitted a Burst of Radio Waves. Why? appeared first on Nautilus.
Scholar, author, and activist Tony Platt reviews the new narrative history of the UC system by Miriam Pawel, "California Dreams: The Making and Remaking of the University of California." Pawel's...
They are full of unusual senses The post The Secret Superpowers of Amphibians and Reptiles appeared first on Nautilus.
People say it looks like broccoli, a tree, a bowl, a pizza, a crescent moon, a Frisbee, a pancake. Etymologically, “pancake” is closest: Placenta means cake in Latin and comes from the Greek word...
What a fascist regime has to repress is thus not emancipatory or liberal legacy but its own subversive core.
Most people know someone with Alzheimer’s disease. When I was growing up, my grandmother struggled with dementia, and I saw firsthand how difficult that was for our family. That experience was one...
But it was strictly a vegetarian The post Check Out the Mouthparts on This New Prehistoric Insect appeared first on Nautilus.
Dr. Goodwin argues that, under Idealism, all illnesses, not only mental health conditions, are a result of abnormal dynamics in the medium of mind. This includes infections, cancers, and even...
Polymers are stubborn things The post Did These Microbes Eat A Lot of the Fossil Record? appeared first on Nautilus.
People like to say we have more computing power in our pockets than NASA used to get to the moon, but even that understates things. The Apollo guidance computer had a measly four kilobytes of RAM,...
As if they weren’t terrifying enough The post Mosasaurs Were Capable of Explosive Speed appeared first on Nautilus.
The global strategy Donald Trump has pursued since the beginning of his second term revives a formula that proved effective for much of the last century. Treating the world as a chessboard, the...
C.H. Waddington’s powerful image of embryonic stem cells specializing on a rolling landscape has captivated biologists since the 1950s. Experimental data is finally confirming, and complicating,...
Many people really hate needles. When they have to give blood or get an IV for even a small medical procedure, they may panic, tensing up their muscles and spiking their heart rate, which can...
Last week on Substack Notes I discussed how odd the New York Times’s approach to the Cornell rape scandal has been.
Morning on the Red Planet The post This Photo of the Martian Dawn Could Be Curiosity’s Most Serene Image Yet appeared first on Nautilus.
The Baffler: Noodles
Oct 09
That’s my favorite color.
Most see 9/11 conspiracies as an aberration in American political life. But historian Andrew McKenzie-McHarg, author of The Hidden History of Conspiracy Theory, argues that there’s nothing...
Aeon: Barbara Ward’s vision
Oct 09
She was among the first to argue that prosperity, equality and the protection of nature are inseparable planetary goals- by Or RosenboimRead on Aeon
Every fall, the same question appears on weather forums and social media: Is snow spreading fast across Siberia? Many weather enthusiasts believe that a quick … The post Can October Snow...
An elephant’s tooth never forgets The post Our Ancient Ancestors’ Lost Habitat Revealed by 700,000-Year-Old Elephant’s Tooth appeared first on Nautilus.
And they go to considerable lengths to do it The post Single Orangutan Moms Set up Playdates for Their Kids appeared first on Nautilus.
