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Could an Industrial Civilization Have Predated Humans on Earth?
A thought experiment plumbs archaeology and geology to ask whether our own species will leave a trace.
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The Curse of Being a Sole Survivor
On January 26, 1972, a Yugoslavian passenger plane flying 33,000 feet above then-Czechoslovakia exploded, ripped apart, and plummeted into the ground, killing 27 of the 28 passengers and crew. Vesna Vulovic, a flight attendant, was the only one to survive the crash. Vulovic holds the Guinness World Record for surviving the highest fall without a […]
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That Is Not How Your Brain Works - Issue 111: Spotlight - Nautilus
Happy Holidays. In this special issue we are reprinting our top stories of the past year. This article first appeared online in our…
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Neuroscience’s Existential Crisis - Issue 107: The Edge - Nautilus
On a chilly evening last fall, I stared into nothingness out of the floor-to-ceiling windows in my office on the outskirts of Harvard’s…
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How to Build a Society for All to Enjoy - Issue 107: The Edge - Nautilus
Structuresstructure (noun): the arrangement of or relation between the parts of something complex; the organization of interrelated…
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The Rise of RNA Therapeutics - Issue 107: The Edge - Nautilus
Most American newborns will arrive home from the hospital and start hitting their developmental milestones, to their parents’ delight.…
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Ian and the Limits of Rationality - Issue 107: The Edge - Nautilus
Setting: Chesterfield High, an unusual school in the suburbs of Ohio.The teacher writes on the board:2, 3, 5, 7, ...How, he asks,…
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The Hard Problem of Consciousness Has an Easy Part We Can Solve - Facts So Romantic - Nautilus
Our General Resonance Theory of consciousness, a framework with a panpsychist foundation, may, at least in theory, provide more complete…
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The Profound Potential of Elon Musk’s New Rocket - Issue 100: Outsiders - Nautilus
In the late afternoon of May 5, SpaceX’s Elon Musk tweeted, “Starship landing nominal!” Musk is not known for understatement.…
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The Country Gentleman of Physics - Issue 100: Outsiders - Nautilus
Julian Barbour’s obsession with time began on Oct. 18, 1963. The 26-year-old Cambridge graduate in mathematics was on a train to…
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Octopuses Find New Hunting Buddies
Under a coral ledge, a day octopus and a brown-marbled grouper meet. The grouper was there first, as if waiting, and they emerge together;…
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Can You Treat Loneliness By Creating an Imaginary Friend?
Tulpamancers imagine talking to the tulpa, sometimes for more than an hour a day, and eventually, perhaps after several months, the…
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Can You Treat Loneliness By Creating an Imaginary Friend? - Facts So Romantic - Nautilus
Tulpamancers imagine talking to the tulpa, sometimes for more than an hour a day, and eventually, perhaps after several months, the…
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An Existential Crisis in Neuroscience - Issue 94: Evolving - Nautilus
Happy Holidays. This week we are reprinting our top stories of 2020. This article first appeared online in our “Maps” issue in…
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How a Nuclear Submarine Officer Learned to Live in Tight Quarters - Issue 94: Evolving - Nautilus
Happy Holidays. This week we are reprinting our top stories of 2020. This article first appeared online in our “Outbreak” issue…
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Why Your Brain’s Sense of Time Is So Elastic
Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine’s Abstractions blog.New research finds that the subjective experience of time is…
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Memories Can Be Injected and Survive Amputation and Metamorphosis - Facts So Romantic - Nautilus
If a headless worm can regrow a memory, then where is the memory stored? And, if a memory can regenerate, could you transfer it?Photograph…
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When Plants Go to War - Issue 90: Something Green - Nautilus
Compared to the hectic rush of our bipedal world, a plant’s life may appear an oasis of tranquility. But look a little closer. The…
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Most of the Mind Can’t Tell Fact from Fiction - Facts So Romantic - Nautilus
Even after you understand how an illusion operates, it continues to fool part of your mind. This is the kind of double knowledge we…
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How a Nuclear Submarine Officer Learned to Live in Tight Quarters - Issue 84: Outbreak - Nautilus
I’m no stranger to forced isolation. For the better part of my 20s, I served as a nuclear submarine officer running secret missions…
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The Superorganism That Created the Pandemic - Issue 83: Intelligence - Nautilus
I’ve spent years adventuring in exotic parts of the world seeking out wildlife—weeks in tents in remote wildernesses, nights uncomfortably…
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Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - Issue 80: Aliens - Nautilus
A spacefaring species could easily settle the entire Milky Way given billions of years. Yet the fact is that there is no obvious one…
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The Joy of Cosmic Mediocrity - Issue 79: Catalysts - Nautilus
One of the greatest debates in the long history of astronomy has been that of exceptionalism versus mediocrity—and one of the great…
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Do Butterflies Challenge the Meaning of Species? - Facts So Romantic - Nautilus
Hybridization, it turns out, plays a pivotal role in how life forms evolve. The tree of life may never look the same.Photograph by…
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Best Screenplay Goes to the Algorithms - Issue 79: Catalysts - Nautilus
Ross Goodwin has had an extraordinary career. After playing about with computers as a child, he studied economics, then became a speech…
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The Endless Storm Over Jupiter - Issue 78: Atmospheres - Nautilus
Philip Marcus, you might say, is obsessed with the solar system’s most famous storm. The computational physicist and professor…
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Never Underestimate the Intelligence of Trees - Issue 77: Underworlds - Nautilus
Consider a forest: One notices the trunks, of course, and the canopy. If a few roots project artfully above the soil and fallen leaves,…
