These Slimy Fish May Have Helped Us Hone Our Sense of Smell
Sophisticated scent seems to have evolved earlier than previously thought The post These Slimy Fish May Have Helped Us Hone Our Sense of Smell appeared first on Nautilus.
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Call Your Grandparents This Holiday Season—for Their Health
Everyday conversations across generations may boost older adults’ sense of purpose The post Call Your Grandparents This Holiday Season—for Their Health appeared first on Nautilus.
One of World’s Rarest Cats Has Finally Resurfaced
Behold the first sightings of a flat-headed cat in Thailand in 30 Years The post One of World’s Rarest Cats Has Finally Resurfaced appeared first on Nautilus.
Tasting Tomorrow
Can we eat local on a warming planet? The post Tasting Tomorrow appeared first on Nautilus.
Alzheimer's: from causes and risk factors to models and interventions
Since the recent disappointingly small effects of monoclonal antibodies on Alzheimer's Disease (AD) progression, there has been lots of discourse around what the cause of Alzheimer's might be. "If not
The Problem With Vaccination Shortfalls in Livestock
Global rates are too low to prevent disease spread The post The Problem With Vaccination Shortfalls in Livestock appeared first on Nautilus.
What a Mosquito’s Lunch Tells Us About the Ecosystem
A clever trick borrowed from Jurassic Park The post What a Mosquito’s Lunch Tells Us About the Ecosystem appeared first on Nautilus.
How Accurate Are Learning Curves?
We’ve talked several times on this substack (as well as in my book), about the learning curve, the observation that costs of a produced good tend to fall by some constant proportion for every cumulati
The Most Beautiful Science of the Year
Insights from Nautilus in 2025 The post The Most Beautiful Science of the Year appeared first on Nautilus.
This Big Space Sandwich Broke a Record
A particularly massive and chaotic baby planetary system captured in exquisite detail The post This Big Space Sandwich Broke a Record appeared first on Nautilus.
Saturn’s Rings Are Thicker Than We Thought
New research points to a wide band of particles, invisible to telescopes The post Saturn’s Rings Are Thicker Than We Thought appeared first on Nautilus.
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Bacteria isolated from japanese tree frogs shown to work better in mice against cancer than doxorubicin or checkpoint inhibitors CAR-T to treat cardiovascular disease New proteomics clock, I wrote a b
Americans Don’t Seem to Enjoy Negotiating
Even when they have to pay more to avoid it The post Americans Don’t Seem to Enjoy Negotiating appeared first on Nautilus.
How All Those Forever Chemicals End Up on Your Plate
Apex predators and people may get the highest doses The post How All Those Forever Chemicals End Up on Your Plate appeared first on Nautilus.
The Stream Animals Thriving After a Megafire
Oregon fish and amphibians are surprisingly resilient The post The Stream Animals Thriving After a Megafire appeared first on Nautilus.
American Dynamism: Progress begins at home
Talks and writing from Progress Conference 2025
How to Taste More Intensely
A tasting boot camp appeared to boost people’s taste buds The post How to Taste More Intensely appeared first on Nautilus.
Eat Like a Neanderthal
Science-inspired recipes to help you dine like our evolutionary cousins The post Eat Like a Neanderthal appeared first on Nautilus.
The Taste of Prehistory
Three recipes our Neanderthal cousins might have enjoyed The post The Taste of Prehistory appeared first on Nautilus.
How to Tell if Someone’s Really Listening
The eyes adjust to help us focus as we chat The post How to Tell if Someone’s Really Listening appeared first on Nautilus.
Did Humans or Climate Push the Neanderthals Over the Edge?
A new model of what went down in one of the Neanderthals’ last holdouts The post Did Humans or Climate Push the Neanderthals Over the Edge? appeared first on Nautilus.
Is the Mistletoe That inspires Holiday Smooching A Menace to Trees?
Study shows that parasitic mistletoe doesn’t hurt host trees in Oregon The post Is the Mistletoe That inspires Holiday Smooching A Menace to Trees? appeared first on Nautilus.
What Does Evolutionary Age Have to Do with a Species’ Extinction?
Younger species of sharks and rays were more likely to die out The post What Does Evolutionary Age Have to Do with a Species’ Extinction? appeared first on Nautilus.
Why Does My Lettuce Go Bad so Fast?
What happens when nature has a leaky raincoat The post Why Does My Lettuce Go Bad so Fast? appeared first on Nautilus.
The first cancer vaccine
Watch now | Hepatitis B is a tiny virus that causes hundreds of thousands of deaths from liver disease and cancer each year. The vaccine against it became the first of many milestones.
Did a Rogue Planet Bring Order to Our Solar System?
New models suggest a celestial bypasser left us with the current orbital lineup The post Did a Rogue Planet Bring Order to Our Solar System? appeared first on Nautilus.
How Dad’s Fitness May Be Packaged and Passed Down in Sperm RNA
Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has become impossible to ignore. The post How Dad’s Fitness May Be
This Meal Might Bring You to Tears
Experimental psychologist Charles Spence on how our senses shape how we eat The post This Meal Might Bring You to Tears appeared first on Nautilus.
Some changes to Sustainability by Numbers in the new year
What's coming up in 2026?
Reading List 12/20/25
Tesla’s robotaxi crash reports, a fusion startup merger, the decline of US injection molding, Wyoming’s snow fences, and more
Which Country Is Most Narcissistic?
It’s not the United States The post Which Country Is Most Narcissistic? appeared first on Nautilus.
These “Living Rocks” Are Living It Up
Unassuming ancient microbe communities are surprisingly skilled at storing away lots of carbon The post These “Living Rocks” Are Living It Up appeared first on Nautilus.
Monster Stars Roamed the Cosmos at the Dawn of Time
“A bit like dinosaurs on Earth—they were enormous and primitive” The post Monster Stars Roamed the Cosmos at the Dawn of Time appeared first on Nautilus.
The Nautilus Winter Reading List 2025
Ten books we loved to start your new year off right. The post The Nautilus Winter Reading List 2025 appeared first on Nautilus.
Does Your Personality Put You At a Higher Risk of Dying?
Taking stock of your foibles could extend your life The post Does Your Personality Put You At a Higher Risk of Dying? appeared first on Nautilus.
These Fatal Gauntlets Kill Thousands of Endangered Seabirds Every Year
Study maps the deadly areas where birds cross paths with fishing vessels The post These Fatal Gauntlets Kill Thousands of Endangered Seabirds Every Year appeared first on Nautilus.
Links and short notes, 2025-12-19
Claude’s soul, industrial leapfrogging, slop from the 1700s, the genius of Jeff Dean, and much more
These Baby Stars Have Mysterious Companions
The Gaia telescope peeked through gas and dust to pick out the possible beginnings of new planets around infant stars The post These Baby Stars Have Mysterious Companions appeared first on Nautilus.
Classical statues were not painted horribly
Did the Greeks and Romans have different tastes, paint badly, or have the reconstructors of classical statues been trolling us?
Why Is Spain Spinning?
It isn’t because the Iberian Peninsula is dizzy The post Why Is Spain Spinning? appeared first on Nautilus.
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