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By Liz Greene
August 30, 2024
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Issue 57 of the Nautilus print edition is our Reality Issue. It includes contributions from Google VP/Fellow Blaise Agüera y Arcas, theoretical physicist Vijay Balasubramanian, philosopher of science Patricia Palacios, composer Michael Hersch, and more. This issue also features new illustrations by Tim O’Brien.
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An Earthy Fallen Star
By Liz Lindqwister
July 29, 2024
Environment
The strange mushroom that puffs life into forests around the world.
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
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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 […]
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