The Best of Nautilus Magazine
20+ most popular Nautilus Magazine articles, as voted by our community.
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Life Is Hard. And That’s Good
When the going gets tough, the tough get philosophical.
«The right perspective in which to think about grief is that it is a manifestation of persisting love,”»
What Does Love Do to Us?
One question for Anna Machin, an evolutionary anthropologist at Oxford University.
The Remarkable Emptiness of Existence
Early scientists didn’t know it, but we do now: The void in the universe is alive.
The Mystery of the Healthy Coral Reef
A reef off the coast of Honduras should be a disaster. Instead it’s thriving.
Nautilus Magazine on Anthropology
The Real Magic of Rituals
We might call them superstitions or spells, but they genuinely drum anxiety away.
Nautilus Magazine on Brain
How Your Brain Fills in the Blanks with Experience
Our neurocircuitry is profoundly shaped by a lifetime of learning.
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We’ve Got News for You About Supercharging Your Brain
Today’s brain-computer interfaces perform medical miracles. Beyond the clinic is another story.
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Nautilus Magazine on Myths
That Is Not How Your Brain Works
Forget these scientific myths to better understand your brain and yourself.
«The third myth is that there’s a clear dividing line between diseases of the body, such as cardiovascular disease, and diseases of the mind, such as depression.»
Nautilus Magazine on Nature
Love Is Biological Bribery
Evolution uses all its tricks to make sure we procreate. But love in humans is a many-splendored thing.
«What happens when you fall in love for the first time is the activation of various areas of the limbic system and the neocortex»
That Snapper You’re Eating Might Be 80 Years Old
Shouldn’t we respect our animal elders, too?
Nautilus Magazine on Neuroscience
The Fine Line Between Life and Not Life
If the brain can’t tell the difference between fiction and reality, what can?
Nautilus Magazine on Physics
What Is Time?
The more closely we observe the present moment, the more amorphous it becomes.
The Math of Living Things
Exploring the intersection of physical and biological laws.
Nautilus Magazine on Quantum Entanglement
They Probed Quantum Entanglement While Everyone Shrugged
This year’s winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics were driven by curiosity, skill, and tenacity.
Nautilus Magazine on Science
A Universal Cancer Treatment?
A medicine that disrupts the DNA replication of cancer cells may be within reach.
Where Have All the Snow Crabs Gone?
Eleven billion crabs vanished. Is climate change really to blame?
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Don’t Treat Your Life as a Project
Fight the tendency to see your life as a narrative journey.
«To see one’s life as a narrative arc, heading for a climax that it may or may not reach, is to see it as a potential failure; but one need not live that way.»
Don’t Give Up on Facts
People of all political stripes can spot misinformation. They just need a nudge.
«simply asking people to reflect on the probability of information being true significantly increases their chances of being able to tell if it is.»
I Didn’t Know My Mind Was So Strange Until I Started Listening to It
I took part in an experiment to decipher my inner thoughts.
The Evolutionary Mystery of Menopause
New studies reinforce the hypothesis that grandmothers fostered our evolutionary success.
I Feel, Therefore I Am
Consciousness is a continuous conversation between the feeling body and the knowing mind.
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