Issue 56 of the Nautilus print edition combines some of the best content from our May and June 2024 online issues. It includes contributions from film director Walter Murch, documentary filmmaker Chris Foster, language scientist Julie Sedivy, science writer Amanda Gefter, and more. This issue also features a new illustration by Chris Buzelli.
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Inside an Exploded Star
By Kristen French
February 22, 2024
Astronomy
Cassiopeia A gets a close-up.
Automatic for the Oceans
By Brian Gallagher
June 30, 2022
General
A rock trio on the rise is raising environmental awareness.
Join Nautilus Live—Get the Truth About Sun Exposure
By Nautilus Editors
June 5, 2014
General
Join us at noon on Monday, June 9, when editor in chief Michael Segal will host a live video chat with award-winning journalist and NYU professor, Jessica Seigel about her latest Nautilus piece, “America Is Getting the Science of Sun Exposure Wrong.” There are two ways to participate. You can send us your questions before […]
Forest for the Trees—Why We Recognize Faces & Constellations
By Robert X.D. Hawkins
May 19, 2014
General
A Ganado-style Navajo rugNational Park Service For many thousands of years, and across cultures around the world, symmetry has been seen as beautiful. The mirror-image accuracy of the Parthenon is seen also in the Taj Mahal and the geometric patterns of traditional Navajo rugs. We see symmetry in more fluid, modern media, too, like the […]
The Universe, Expanding Symmetrically and Eternally
By Amos Zeeberg
May 14, 2014
General
Two months ago, we learned of landmark evidence bolstering the theory of inflation, a period very soon after the Big Bang when the Universe expanded at a terrific rate, stretching out and smoothing its lumps, and making it remarkably consistent on large scales. A recent study confirms that, even 13.8 billion years after the […]
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