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There's a new sea spider in town(nautil.us)

15 points by whiteblossom 23 days ago | 2 comments

A Nautilus zoology article by Devin Reese about a newly described species of sea spider.

The Wonders of the Male Human Pelvis(nautil.us)

37 points by littlexsparkee 2 months ago | 18 comments

Why it might be time to rethink the human family tree(nautil.us)

61 points by Anon84 2 months ago | 34 comments

Where Human Sleep Went Wrong(nautil.us)

78 points by XzetaU8 2 months ago | 63 comments

As researchers age, they produce less disruptive work(nautil.us)

126 points by Brajeshwar 5 months ago | 111 comments

Farewell to a Giant of Botany(nautil.us)

85 points by Brajeshwar 5 months ago | 5 comments

Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data(nautil.us)

122 points by WaitWaitWha 6 months ago | 43 comments

Hubble Snaps a New Dazzling Photo of the Crab Nebula(nautil.us)

48 points by Brajeshwar 7 months ago | 8 comments

Discontinuation and reinitiation of dual-labeled GLP-1 receptor agonists(nautil.us)

60 points by siquick 7 months ago | 81 comments

Welcome to the Block Universe(nautil.us)

18 points by samizdis 7 months ago | 2 comments

Our collective obsession with boredom: Interview with a boredom lab researcher(nautil.us)

19 points by akakievich 9 months ago | 6 comments

Cows can use sophisticated tools(nautil.us)

70 points by Tomte 9 months ago | 40 comments

Crick and Watson Did Not Steal Franklin's Data(nautil.us)

40 points by Brajeshwar 10 months ago | 9 comments

Why I don’t root for the Many Worlds team(nautil.us)

7 points by dnetesn 10 months ago | 1 comments

Are We over the "Jaws Effect?"(nautil.us)

26 points by fleahunter 10 months ago | 37 comments

The surprising benefits of giving up(nautil.us)

192 points by jnord 11 months ago | 147 comments

Ancient Roman Glass Reveals a Hidden "Language"(nautil.us)

34 points by DrierCycle 11 months ago | 2 comments

Childhood Friends, Not Moms, Shape Attachment Styles Most(nautil.us)

270 points by dnetesn 11 months ago | 98 comments

How the Spoils of an Infamous Heist Traveled the World(nautil.us)

3 points by curtistyr 11 months ago | 0 comments

What Hallucinogens Will Make You See (2023)(nautil.us)

60 points by simonebrunozzi 11 months ago | 64 comments

Why we love horror stories(nautil.us)

10 points by dnetesn 11 months ago | 6 comments

The problem with farmed seafood(nautil.us)

136 points by dnetesn 11 months ago | 96 comments

A Library for Fish Sounds(nautil.us)

31 points by pistolpete5 1 year ago | 5 comments

Cities obey the laws of living things(nautil.us)

43 points by dnetesn 1 year ago | 10 comments

Tiny microbe challenges the definition of cellular life(nautil.us)

136 points by jnord 1 year ago | 67 comments

The Data in a Dino's Smile(nautil.us)

3 points by dnetesn 1 year ago | 0 comments

The Magic of Herding(nautil.us)

11 points by dnetesn 1 year ago | 2 comments

The first lunar road trip(nautil.us)

5 points by dnetesn 1 year ago | 0 comments

The fish kick may be the fastest subsurface swim stroke yet (2015)(nautil.us)

243 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 165 comments

Is It Cake? How Our Brain Deciphers Materials(nautil.us)

16 points by dnetesn 1 year ago | 4 comments

Chasing Lost Languages(nautil.us)

10 points by dnetesn 1 year ago | 4 comments

Finding Peter Putnam(nautil.us)

85 points by dnetesn 1 year ago | 64 comments

Harry Brearley, the creator of stainless steel (2016)(nautil.us)

74 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 28 comments

Finding Peter Putnam(nautil.us)

8 points by gcheong 1 year ago | 1 comments

What happens when clergy take psilocybin(nautil.us)

333 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 493 comments

Nautilus article on a decade-old study, now published, in which clergy members took psilocybin and reported profound religious experiences.

Ice Theft in Antarctica(nautil.us)

11 points by simonebrunozzi 1 year ago | 13 comments

Conspiracy Theorists Can Be Deprogrammed(nautil.us)

19 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 17 comments

Living with Lab Mice(nautil.us)

24 points by kawera 1 year ago | 7 comments

The Last of Their Kind(nautil.us)

17 points by dnetesn 1 year ago | 6 comments

The Animals That Exist Between Life and Death(nautil.us)

72 points by dnetesn 1 year ago | 33 comments

What my stroke taught me (2017)(nautil.us)

96 points by blegh 1 year ago | 36 comments

Why Our Brains Crave Ideology(nautil.us)

7 points by Brajeshwar 1 year ago | 1 comments

One of the Most Egregious Ripoffs in the History of Science – The Race to DNA(nautil.us)

32 points by robaato 1 year ago | 5 comments

Neutron Stars Hint at Another Dimension(nautil.us)

155 points by dnetesn 1 year ago | 60 comments

Pebbles Form Planets(nautil.us)

16 points by dnetesn 1 year ago | 1 comments

The Tectonics Behind the Myanmar Quake(nautil.us)

36 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 6 comments

The Surprising History of Scientific Ballooning in 11 Missions(nautil.us)

9 points by dnetesn 1 year ago | 1 comments

When the Animals Went Electric(nautil.us)

5 points by dnetesn 1 year ago | 0 comments

The Hallucinatory Thoughts of the Dying Mind(nautil.us)

18 points by dnetesn 1 year ago | 1 comments

Repeat offenders may be responsible for many shark attacks(nautil.us)

39 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 36 comments

A Missing Link Between Concussion and Alzheimer's(nautil.us)

48 points by dnetesn 1 year ago | 4 comments

The Conundrum of Life's Origin(nautil.us)

57 points by Brajeshwar 1 year ago | 39 comments

How to Tell a Leopard from Its Roar(nautil.us)

4 points by dnetesn 1 year ago | 0 comments

The rise and fall of the English sentence (2017)(nautil.us)

81 points by cal85 1 year ago | 39 comments

Physicists who want to ditch dark energy(nautil.us)

80 points by dnetesn 1 year ago | 74 comments

The Sean Carrolls Explain the Universe(nautil.us)

16 points by dnetesn 1 year ago | 7 comments

AI Is the Black Mirror(nautil.us)

53 points by Jun8 1 year ago | 43 comments

My Pal, the Ancient Philosopher(nautil.us)

37 points by HR01 1 year ago | 8 comments

Why do animals adopt?(nautil.us)

41 points by dnetesn 1 year ago | 39 comments

The New Climate Math on Hurricanes(nautil.us)

39 points by dnetesn 1 year ago | 37 comments

Undersea Cables Connect the Global Internet(nautil.us)

45 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 21 comments

The Power of Small Brain Networks(nautil.us)

48 points by dnetesn 1 year ago | 9 comments

A comic uses fluid dynamics to explain how groups of people move(nautil.us)

8 points by dnetesn 1 year ago | 0 comments

Solving the Siberian Crater Mystery(nautil.us)

16 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 4 comments

Cat Is Listening to You(nautil.us)

27 points by dnetesn 2 years ago | 27 comments

The Romance of Seahorses(nautil.us)

6 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 1 comments

When Earth had rings(nautil.us)

113 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 45 comments

If You Meet ET in Space, Kill Him(nautil.us)

4 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 1 comments

Will plants grow on the moon?(nautil.us)

83 points by dnetesn 2 years ago | 95 comments

Physics is unreasonably good at creating new math(nautil.us)

215 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 196 comments

In the beginning, there was computation(nautil.us)

39 points by yarapavan 2 years ago | 71 comments

Einstein's Other Theory of Everything(nautil.us)

158 points by dnetesn 2 years ago | 101 comments

Crows are even smarter than we thought(nautil.us)

443 points by dnetesn 2 years ago | 236 comments

Nautilus article by Kenna Hughes-Castleberry on new evidence that crows and other corvids have surprising mental abilities.

Out of Your Head(nautil.us)

75 points by dnetesn 2 years ago | 58 comments

Out of Your Head(nautil.us)

7 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 0 comments

Confessions of a Theoretical Physicist(nautil.us)

151 points by signa11 2 years ago | 147 comments

"Frost crack" sounds may come from sky, not trees(nautil.us)

271 points by jnord 2 years ago | 75 comments

Electric Clouds This Summer(nautil.us)

37 points by yimby 2 years ago | 12 comments

What Happened to Ancient Megafauna?(nautil.us)

68 points by jnord 2 years ago | 78 comments

The oldest ecosystems on Earth(nautil.us)

24 points by dnetesn 2 years ago | 1 comments

Edmond Albius's method of pollination is now used by all vanilla growers(nautil.us)

112 points by dnetesn 2 years ago | 18 comments

Magic died when art and science split(nautil.us)

30 points by dnetesn 2 years ago | 1 comments

We Are Made of Waves(nautil.us)

68 points by dnetesn 2 years ago | 42 comments

Sound rules life underwater(nautil.us)

39 points by dnetesn 2 years ago | 10 comments

The Collapse Is Coming. Will Humanity Adapt?(nautil.us)

5 points by dnetesn 2 years ago | 1 comments

An accident of lighting uncovers origins of the astrolabe(nautil.us)

76 points by jnord 2 years ago | 9 comments

The Marvelous Seamounts of the Southeast Pacific(nautil.us)

17 points by dnetesn 2 years ago | 5 comments

When Bacteria Are Beautiful(nautil.us)

42 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 1 comments

What happens to Google Maps when tectonic plates move? (2020)(nautil.us)

216 points by dmitrysergeyev 2 years ago | 71 comments

A closeup on the flight and longevity of tropical bats(nautil.us)

8 points by dnetesn 2 years ago | 1 comments

The Speediest Creatures on Earth(nautil.us)

41 points by dnetesn 2 years ago | 5 comments

The Plight of Japan's AMA Divers(nautil.us)

10 points by dnetesn 2 years ago | 4 comments

The end of the dark universe?(nautil.us)

81 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 47 comments

The End of the Dark Universe?(nautil.us)

29 points by jnord 2 years ago | 12 comments

The first observation of humpback whale copulation(nautil.us)

11 points by geox 2 years ago | 1 comments

Could Modified Gravity Kill Planet Nine?(nautil.us)

103 points by dnetesn 2 years ago | 122 comments

ChatGPT Is Funnier Than You(nautil.us)

27 points by dnetesn 2 years ago | 39 comments

Studying species in the deepest parts of the ocean: A new method of analysis(nautil.us)

49 points by dnetesn 2 years ago | 14 comments

Cells Across the Body Talk to Each Other About Aging(nautil.us)

47 points by mdp2021 2 years ago | 4 comments

The Magic of the Blackboard(nautil.us)

38 points by dnetesn 2 years ago | 45 comments

The Dubious Economics of Deep-Sea Mining(nautil.us)

42 points by dnetesn 2 years ago | 39 comments

Human sperm cooperate on the competitive pathway to fertilization: study(nautil.us)

149 points by dnetesn 2 years ago | 78 comments

Stop Worrying About Deepfakes(nautil.us)

18 points by dnetesn 2 years ago | 26 comments

A peculiar fish and an evolutionary mystery(nautil.us)

26 points by sohkamyung 2 years ago | 3 comments

Thank Eve for Human Evolution(nautil.us)

9 points by dnetesn 2 years ago | 2 comments

Digging for Our Origins in the Bone Beds of an African Park(nautil.us)

15 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 1 comments

Cryptographers solve decades-old privacy problem(nautil.us)

324 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 124 comments

Nautilus article by Madison Goldberg on cryptographers' advance toward fully private database lookups and internet searches (private information retrieval).

Why Is It So Difficult to Map the Ocean?(nautil.us)

53 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 37 comments

Mirror-Image Life(nautil.us)

17 points by jlund-molfese 3 years ago | 6 comments

Elephants are scared around bees(nautil.us)

145 points by dnetesn 3 years ago | 85 comments

Humid Heat Can Kill Us Much Faster Than We Thought(nautil.us)

46 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 15 comments

A wild idea to protect the Great Barrier Reef(nautil.us)

66 points by dnetesn 3 years ago | 58 comments

Deep-Sea Octopus Nursery(nautil.us)

91 points by dnetesn 3 years ago | 13 comments

The Worth of Wild Ideas(nautil.us)

33 points by dnetesn 3 years ago | 17 comments

We have two separate salt-taste systems(nautil.us)

31 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 38 comments

The pandemic your grandparents forgot about(nautil.us)

39 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 39 comments

The Social Life of Bats(nautil.us)

42 points by dnetesn 3 years ago | 10 comments

Call of the Liar(nautil.us)

27 points by sohkamyung 3 years ago | 4 comments

The Last of the Fungus(nautil.us)

44 points by dnetesn 3 years ago | 28 comments

Your brain on emoji(nautil.us)

90 points by dnetesn 3 years ago | 142 comments