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What makes pre-trained AI models so impressive—and potentially harmful.| Nautilus
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That song stuck in your head is your brain doing its work.| Nautilus
The storied career of the centenarian and acoustician, Leo Beranek.| Nautilus
Scientist and soprano Haruka Kondo is determined to strip away the mystery behind a successful vocal performance.| Nautilus
If you want to know what it takes to succeed in science, head to the Nobel Prize ceremony.| Nautilus
A new history of the race to decipher DNA reveals Shakespearean plots of scheming.| Nautilus
DNA’s Death Notice: See original manuscripts, photos, and jokes from luminaries like Rosalind Franklin, Aaron Klug, and Linus Pauling| Nautilus
Just ask this religious scholar who took 73 high-dose LSD trips.| Nautilus
What’s the price of a sacred plant?| Nautilus
A radical theory that pagan cults gave rise to early Christianity.| Nautilus
The Surprising Fragility of Shark Teeth: These gnashers may be no match for ocean acidity, as climate change gives marine pH a kick.| Nautilus
Len Howard opened her cottage—and our eyes—to the birds| Nautilus
Cathedrals, seed banks, and oaks: How to live in times of change.| Nautilus
The closest I ever got to flying with the birds was on the ground.| Nautilus
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Amanda Gefter talks about the exhausting and thrilling decade she spent writing about lost genius Peter Putnam| Nautilus
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The real winner in the battle between two leading theories of consciousness was science itself| Nautilus
But are animal dictionaries enough to demystify the animal mind?| Nautilus
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The forgotten janitor who discovered the logic of the mind| Nautilus
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Audio Feature: The Puzzle of Free Will| Nautilus
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The idea that mysterious stuff speeds up the acceleration of the universe could be a big mistake| Nautilus
The Kinship Issue| Nautilus
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The language we share with plants—and all life under the sun.| Nautilus
A visit with evolutionary biologists Peter and Rosemary Grant.| Nautilus
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Changing the narrative on false memories might be surprisingly simple.| Nautilus
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Earth's most distant space probes prepare for their inevitable long night.| Nautilus
Alan Lightman’s three greatest revelations while writing The Miraculous from the Material.| Nautilus
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Once lost in scientific obscurity, bacteriophage therapy is making a comeback.| Nautilus
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Scientists have long puzzled over the behavior of mixed particles in rivers and landslides. New clues could be groundbreaking.| Nautilus
How cyanobacteria killed one climate and created our habitable Earth.| Nautilus
The blunt impact of ocean pollution, in one photograph.| Nautilus
Three Earth plants will soon make a new home on the lunar surface.| Nautilus
The Ocean Apocalypse Is Upon Us, Maybe| Nautilus
The Reality Issue| Nautilus
The secret sauce is the real world.| Nautilus
A scientist tells us how her field instills timefulness.| Nautilus
After Einstein explained gravity as a consequence of curved spacetime, he tried to explain matter the same way.| Nautilus
100 years ago, a circle of physicists shook the foundation of science. It’s still trembling.| Nautilus
How we learned to sort true from false in medicine.| Nautilus
The thought experiments illuminating black holes and other scientific problems.| Nautilus
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Learning to appreciate the big picture.| Nautilus
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