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By Lee Alan Dugatkin May 13, 2024 Zoology The Astonishing Ways Animals Use Social Networks Lee Alan Dugatkin on his 3 greatest revelations while writing The Well-Connected Animal. By Lee Alan Dugatkin May 13, 2024 Environment A Buffer Zone for Trees How frosty pockets in valleys could help protect some trees against climate change. By Syris Valentine May 10, 2024 Communication A Scientist Walks Into a Bar … How comedy plays on our emotions to fight misinformation. By Sarah Adelman May 9, 2024 The Rebel Issue Arts The Soviet Rebel of Music He composed on a computer in a dangerous time. His echo is still heard today. By Grigori Guitchounts April 30, 2024 Zoology The Animals That Turn Bodily Fluids into Weapons Four explosive tales of blood, spit, and venom. By Kristen French April 29, 2024 Communication How Whales Could Help Us Speak to Aliens Learning to decode complex communication on Earth may give us a leg up if intelligent life from space makes contact. By Claire Cameron April 26, 2024 The Porthole Short sharp looks at science Environment How Melting Ice Has Altered Time-Keeping Climate change could upend how we synchronize global clocks forever. By Charles Digges May 9, 2024 Technology Color-Coding Crops for Climate Change Novel ways to use gene-editing to make farming more sustainable. By Katharine Gammon May 8, 2024 Technology Why Animals Run Faster than Robots The whole is greater than the sum of the parts. By Elena Kazamia May 7, 2024 Get the best of Nautilus. Become a member today. Join now Ocean Environment A Radical Rescue for Caribbean Reefs Can transplants help Caribbean corals avert collapse? By Juli Berwald May 1, 2024 Zoology The Marvelous Seamounts of the Southeast Pacific An expedition to a little-explored region returns with deep-sea wonders. By Brandon Keim April 3, 2024 Environment The Ocean Apocalypse Is Upon Us, Maybe What we know—and don’t know—about a crucial climate tipping point. By David Garczynski April 3, 2024 Life Environment The Invasive Species When it comes to tinkering with nature, our résumé is a list of breathtaking mistakes. By Lydia Millet April 2, 2024 Communication The End of Species Why it’s time for new ways of naming life. By Jason Roberts March 25, 2024 Zoology He Closed the Gap Between Humans and Apes Frans de Waal saw animal behavior with fresh eyes and forever enriched our understanding of primates. By Lucy Cooke March 21, 2024 Cosmos Astronomy Discovering the First Other Earths Inside the hunt for habitable planets. By Lisa Kaltenegger May 8, 2024 Physics The End of the Dark Universe? A new post-quantum” theory of gravity says we can wave dark matter and dark energy goodbye. By Sabine Hossenfelder March 13, 2024 Astronomy Here to Save the Day! Asteroid defense gets serious. By Tom Vanderbilt February 28, 2024 Culture Arts Does Science Fiction Shape the Future? Conversations with visionary science fiction authors on the social impact of their work. By Namir Khaliq April 5, 2024 Health The Pitfalls of AI Health Coaches Raising questions about the next generation of health wearables. By Matt Fuchs March 5, 2024 Psychology ChatGPT Is Funnier Than You AI humor in theory and practice. By Jonathan Silvertown February 21, 2024 Earth Geoscience Do Our Oceans Feel the Tug of Mars? Ancient currents seemed to move in concert with a 2.4 million-year dance between the Red Planet and Earth. By Marcia Bjornerud March 29, 2024 Geoscience Let’s Get Granular Scientists have long puzzled over the behavior of mixed particles in rivers and landslides. New clues could be groundbreaking. By Marcia Bjornerud February 26, 2024 Geoscience When Calamity Comes at a Crawl Climate change may exacerbate the quiet catastrophe of slow-moving landslides. By Lois Parshley February 23, 2024 Mind Philosophy What Counts as Consciousness Neuroscientist Christof Koch on human minds, AI, and bacteria. By Dan Falk May 6, 2024 Technology Consciousness, Creativity, and Godlike AI American writer Meghan O’Gieblyn on when the mind is alive. By Steve Paulson May 2, 2024 Psychology The Dark Side of Awe Probing our sense of mystery and wonder. By Kevin Berger January 29, 2024 Introducing Mobilize for the Ocean Help us support a healthy, vibrant and sustainable ocean Explore Explore Arts Why AI Can Never Make Humans Obsolete By The Nautilus Marketing Team May 13, 2024 Art+Science A conversation with Issue 55 cover artist Angie Wang. Explore Zoology The Curious Life of a Singing Fish By Sarah Gilman May 6, 2024 The Porthole Plainfin midshipman fish migrate from the deep sea to spawn—and then things get weird. Explore Zoology Insects and Other Animals May Have Consciousness By Dan Falk May 3, 2024 Quanta Abstractions A new consensus emerges. Explore Environment Sardines Are Feeling the Squeeze By Elena Kazamia May 3, 2024 The Porthole Climate change and overfishing are decimating sardines in the Philippines. Explore Philosophy I Never Stopped Learning from Daniel Dennett By Anil Seth May 2, 2024 The Porthole Reflections on a philosopher who believed we can solve the problem of consciousness. Explore Philosophy 10 Brilliant Insights from Daniel Dennett By Dan Falk May 1, 2024 The Porthole A glimpse of a mind jammed to the rafters with ideas. Explore Physics Making Light of Gravity By Claudia de Rham April 25, 2024 The Rebel Issue Physicist Claudia de Rham on her 3 greatest revelations while writing The Beauty of Falling: A Life in Pursuit of Gravity . Explore History The Age of Rebellion By Katharine Gammon April 23, 2024 The Rebel Issue The surprising relationship between age and success in rebellions. Explore History The Feminist Botanist By Rebecca Batley April 22, 2024 The Rebel Issue A 19th-century tale of hermaphrodite flowers, Charles Darwin, and women’s right to vote. Explore Psychology The Psychology of Getting High—a Lot By Michael Inzlicht April 19, 2024 The Rebel Issue Time to extinguish the slacker cliche. Explore Zoology The Shark Whisperer By Katharine Gammon April 18, 2024 The Rebel Issue Donald Nelson spent his life undoing the damage that Jaws did to the perception of sharks. Explore Astronomy Nine Rebel Astronomy Theories That Went Dark By Tom Metcalfe April 17, 2024 The Rebel Issue Bright ideas from astronomy’s biggest stars haven’t always worked out. Explore Environment The Part-Time Climate Scientist By Sidney Perkowitz April 16, 2024 The Rebel Issue A humble steam engineer put humans in the driver’s seat. Explore Psychology The Bad Trip Detective By Shruti Ravindran April 15, 2024 The Rebel Issue The researcher delving into the downsides of psychedelic drugs. Explore Arts A Revolution in Time By Jonathon Keats April 11, 2024 The Rebel Issue Why clocks need to follow the tempo of nature. Explore Astronomy Lithium, the Elemental Rebel By Paul M. Sutter April 10, 2024 The Rebel Issue What a missing element can teach us about the universe. Explore Zoology The Marine Biologist Who Dove Right In By Rebecca R. Helm April 9, 2024 The Rebel Issue He changed the study of ocean life by getting in the water. Explore Communication The Rebel Issue By Kevin Berger April 8,...