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Nautilus Magazine @nautil.us · Dec 9
We've made a starter pack of Nautilus contributors! A great way to jumpstart your Bluesky experience with great science minds. go.bsky.app/RbETK5c
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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 1d
In a recent @nautil.us article, #Dartmouth archaeologist Jesse Casana shares how he trained machine learning models to scan aerial images for ancient Roman forts, turning tedious hours of manual work into a high-tech collaboration.
How AI Is Helping Archaeologists Make Discoveries
How AI Is Helping Archaeologists Make Discoveries: New clues about ancient civilizations are being unearthed from the data.
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Nautilus Magazine @nautil.us · 15h
These tiny pieces of art include “PAC-MOF," which may look familiar to retro video game fans.

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Nautilus Magazine @nautil.us · 15h
Today's #NobelPrize in #Chemistry recognized the same revolutionary materials on display in this nano-sized art gallery: nautil.us/a-nano-sized...
A Nano-sized Art Gallery
The wee world of nanoscale research, which involves manipulating materials measuring just a billionth of a meter, yielded these mini marvels.
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Sabine Hossenfelder @hossenfelder.bsky.social · 1d
The 2025 Physics Nobel Prize was awarded for macroscopic quantum tunneling. What is this and what is it good for? I have a brief summary.

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The 2025 Physics Nobel Prize: Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling
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Nautilus Magazine @nautil.us · 2d
Today's #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine recognized immune system research breakthroughs. Check out our previous coverage on "the immune system’s tricks for identifying foreign invaders." nautil.us/how-does-any...
How Does Anyone Stay Healthy in a World Full of Germs?
Computational biology is uncovering the immune system’s tricks for identifying foreign invaders.
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Katya Zimmer @katarinazimmer.bsky.social · 2d
A rare piece of good news: New research reveals how the Ampurta - a small carnivorous Australian marsupial - is thriving despite drought conditions. My story for @nautil.us showcases its nifty drought-resisting tricks that made this feat possible

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Deep Sleep Is This Mammal’s Super Power
Few Mammals Sleep as Deeply as the Ampurta: How a threatened Australian marsupial is thriving in the face of drought.
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Nautilus Magazine @nautil.us · 5d
The passing of Jane Goodall, the primatologist who changed the the way science views non-human animals, has unleashed a flood of remembrances. Here are stories of Goodall's lasting legacy told by the people who knew her best. nautil.us/the-indomita...
The Indomitable Jane Goodall
The Indomitable Jane Goodall: Reflections and memories from those who knew the trailblazing primatologist best
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Nautilus Magazine @nautil.us · 8d
A pediatrician responds to Trump and Kennedy on vaccines, autism, and Tylenol. Nautilus editor Kevin Berger talks with physician Rahul Parikh about the challenges of doctoring in days of disinformation. nautil.us/a-pediatrici...
A Pediatrician’s Lament
How the blustery rhetoric of Trump and Kennedy on autism makes life harder for local physicians—and their patients.
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Nautilus Magazine @nautil.us · 8d
The science within a ghost story told around the world may be linked to the first spark of life on Earth.

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Ghostly Swamp Lightning Explained
Scientists have discovered the source of spooky will-o'-the-wisp lights from ancient lore, which may have also sparked life on Earth.
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Nautilus Magazine @nautil.us · 12d
Diseases once relegated to history in the U.S. are poised to come surging back, causing childhood suffering and death. We have a way to prevent them. But what happens if we don't use it? Journalist @scudellari.bsky.social talked with researchers and physicians to find out. nautil.us/our-dark-unv...
Our Dark, Unvaccinated Future
Our Dark, Unvaccinated Future: Diseases that cause suffocation, paralysis, and childhood death are poised to come surging back.
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Nautilus Magazine @nautil.us · 14d
As the hunt for extraterrestrial life accelerates, scholars propose we grant extraterrestrials legal rights, using as a model the growing global ”rights of nature” movement. nautil.us/extraterrest...
Extraterrestrials are People, Too
Should we grant legal rights to extraterrestrial life before we have even met any in the cosmos? Some scholars say yes.
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Dan Falk @danfalk.bsky.social · 18d
I had a wide-ranging conversation with psychologist Paul Bloom (@paulbloomatyale.bsky.social) about the pros and cons of AI chatbot companions, what babies have that AIs lack, and more, for @nautil.us:
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What's Wrong with Having an AI Friend?
What’s Wrong with Having an AI Friend? Psychologist Paul Bloom on why chatbots make good companions. And why they don’t.
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Nautilus Magazine @nautil.us · 16d
These scientists learned to look at frog reproductive biology through a completely different lens by adopting a queer feminist approach to framing the messiness of life. nautil.us/the-queer-li...
The Queer Lives of Frogs
The Queer Lives of Frogs: What American green frogs teach us about sex, science, and the unexpected messiness of biology
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Nautilus Magazine @nautil.us · 20d
🐶Think your dog is smart? Playing fetch just became a whole new intellectual ballgame: Some dogs can go beyond learning hundreds of words to generalizing what sorts of things their toys might be used for. nautil.us/some-dogs-ca...
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Nautilus Magazine @nautil.us · 20d
Some scientists want to create creatures that defy nature, claiming they can benefit drug development—but others say it’s too dangerous to attempt. nautil.us/what-to-know...
What to Know About Mirror Life
What to Know About Mirror Life: Scientists want to create a biological Bizarro World, building cells with molecules mirroring natural ones.
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Nautilus Magazine @nautil.us · 21d
From Stone Age axes to internet memes, humans have the most complex cultures on Earth. Scientists have long thought culture helped drive our survival and reproduction. Now some scientists say that culture has actually overtaken genetics as the leading force shaping human evolution. bit.ly/3K8Goth
Has Culture Overtaken Genes in Human Evolution? By Kristen French. This illustration charts primate evolution in a fun, cartoony way.
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Sean Raymond (planetplanet.net) @planetplanet.bsky.social · 29d
In my new @nautil.us article, I use a lot of recent research to argue that rocky exoplanets on eccentric orbits are often very good candidates for life.

(At least, eccentric/inclined orbits should not be used as a negative for habitability)

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Wild Orbits Prime Planets for Life
Looking for habitable worlds? Check the ones with extreme swings.
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Igor Grossmann, PhD @igi.bsky.social · 26d
Our recent work (which came out in Proceedings B doi.org/10.1098/rspb...) featured in @nautil.us. Can I Give You Some Advice? nautil.us/can-i-give-y...
Can I Give You Some Advice?
Can I Give You Some Advice? I’d tell you not to read this article, but you’d probably ignore me and simply decide for yourself.
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Dan Falk @danfalk.bsky.social · 22d
H.A. Rey, co-creator of Curious George, was born #OTD in 1898. But his work extended beyond the mischievous monkey: Recently, I wrote about Rey's popular #astronomy books, which brought the stars to a generation of skywatchers: @nautil.us
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Readers Love Curious George. I Fell in Love with the Author’s Astronomy Books.
H.A. Rey recreated star maps with wit, grace, and accuracy.
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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 23d
I wrote about Ting's work for @nautil.us before the topic became trendy.
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Mirror-Image Life
This biochemist is determined to create a new life form by reversing the shape of molecules.
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Laura Poppick @laurapoppick.bsky.social · Jul 18
Delighted to have an excerpt from STRATA out in @nautil.us this week! 🪨🌏💫

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The Stories Rocks Tell Us
Lessons for our current Earth from the geologic past
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Laura Poppick @laurapoppick.bsky.social · Jul 18
In addition to an excerpt I have out in @nautil.us this week (nautil.us/the-stories-...)

...I also had a lot of fun writing this 3 Greatest Revelations piece about what surprised me as I researched the book:

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When Earth Had No Fire
Laura Poppick’s 3 greatest revelations while writing her book, Strata: Stories from Deep Time
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Nautilus Magazine @nautil.us · Jul 14
Black holes refuse to cooperate with Albert Einstein’s model that explains the workings of gravity — but what if we consider black holes less as gravitational bodies and more as quantum objects? Learn more in tomorrow's free story in the Nautilus newsletter. Sign up at the link in our bio!
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Nautilus Magazine @nautil.us · Jul 11
Scientists are working to rewrite the genetic code. One aspiring creation within this field "would be unlike anything alive today—and perhaps unlike anything that has ever existed on Earth." Learn more in the free story in this weekend's newsletter. Sign up in our bio!
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Nautilus Magazine @nautil.us · Jul 9
Paul Stamets thinks plenty of problems can be solved by fungi—devastating bee diseases included. Get more details in the free story in tomorrow's newsletter. Sign up at the link in our bio!
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