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For @nautil.us, @okaysteve.bsky.social spoke with Kevin Berger about his new book, How to Change a Memory. Read the full interview here:
He Erased Memory in Mice. Then Thought About Erasing His Own
He Erased Memory in Mice. Then Thought About Erasing His Own: Sunk in grief, this neuroscientist discovered the power of memory in himself.
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November 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM
For @nautil.us, @okaysteve.bsky.social spoke with Kevin Berger about his new book, How to Change a Memory. Read the full interview here:
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“...with 'Contact,' the ever-contradictory Carl Sagan—avowed nonbeliever—offered one of the most religious science-fiction tales ever written.” Carl Sagan was born #OTD in 1934. Recently, I wrote about the lasting legacy of his most beloved work for @nautil.us: nautil.us/a-surprising... #science
A Surprising Side of Carl Sagan
In Contact, the great science advocate posed a religious question about the cosmos.
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November 9, 2025 at 6:12 PM
“...with 'Contact,' the ever-contradictory Carl Sagan—avowed nonbeliever—offered one of the most religious science-fiction tales ever written.” Carl Sagan was born #OTD in 1934. Recently, I wrote about the lasting legacy of his most beloved work for @nautil.us: nautil.us/a-surprising... #science
The “Hurricane Hunters” crew from the United States Air Force captured a haunting illusion at the center of Hurricane Melissa—a key feature of particularly powerful hurricanes. Learn how it forms: nautil.us/how-this-hau...
How This Haunting Hurricane Illusion Forms
How This Haunting Hurricane Illusion Forms: Powerful storms like Hurricane Melissa foment an odd phenomenon called the “stadium effect” at their centers
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October 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
The “Hurricane Hunters” crew from the United States Air Force captured a haunting illusion at the center of Hurricane Melissa—a key feature of particularly powerful hurricanes. Learn how it forms: nautil.us/how-this-hau...
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Solar system environments aren't distant frontiers. They're actors that have shaped our history, and may hold the key for our future. In this new article for @nautil.us, I share three big revelations from writing "Ripples on a Cosmic Ocean." #EnvHist #Space nautil.us/what-happens...
What Happens in Space Matters on Earth
What Happens in Space Matters on Earth: Dagomar Degroot’s three greatest revelations while writing Ripples on a Cosmic Ocean
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October 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Solar system environments aren't distant frontiers. They're actors that have shaped our history, and may hold the key for our future. In this new article for @nautil.us, I share three big revelations from writing "Ripples on a Cosmic Ocean." #EnvHist #Space nautil.us/what-happens...
A young boy in Nebraska may well have been saved thanks to a particular piece of rotten eggplant collected in South Africa— and a virus it contained. Meet the long overlooked viruses that could help combat rising antibiotic resistance: nautil.us/the-cure-hid...
The Cure Hiding in a Rotten Eggplant
The Cure Hiding in a Rotten Eggplant: Bacteriophage therapy’s new renaissance
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October 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
A young boy in Nebraska may well have been saved thanks to a particular piece of rotten eggplant collected in South Africa— and a virus it contained. Meet the long overlooked viruses that could help combat rising antibiotic resistance: nautil.us/the-cure-hid...
Testimonies to the therapeutic powers of #psychedelics abound. But explanations for what the brain actually does on these drugs are proving to be shaky. nautil.us/what-is-your...
What Is Your Brain Doing on Psychedelics?
What Is Your Brain Doing on Psychedelics? Something is happening here, but neuroscientists don’t know what it is.
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October 22, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Testimonies to the therapeutic powers of #psychedelics abound. But explanations for what the brain actually does on these drugs are proving to be shaky. nautil.us/what-is-your...
Half of this year’s #NobelPrize winners in the U.S. were immigrants. Now, the Trump administration may be threatening the country’s Nobel future—and its top rank among global science powerhouses. nautil.us/will-trumps-...
Will Trump's Immigration Policies Hurt US Nobel Chances?
This article explores the impact of the Trump administration's policies surrounding science funding and immigration on science.
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October 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Half of this year’s #NobelPrize winners in the U.S. were immigrants. Now, the Trump administration may be threatening the country’s Nobel future—and its top rank among global science powerhouses. nautil.us/will-trumps-...
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In a recent @nautil.us article, #Dartmouth archaeologist Jesse Casana shares how he trained machine learning models to scan aerial images for ancient Roman forts, turning tedious hours of manual work into a high-tech collaboration.
How AI Is Helping Archaeologists Make Discoveries
How AI Is Helping Archaeologists Make Discoveries: New clues about ancient civilizations are being unearthed from the data.
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October 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
In a recent @nautil.us article, #Dartmouth archaeologist Jesse Casana shares how he trained machine learning models to scan aerial images for ancient Roman forts, turning tedious hours of manual work into a high-tech collaboration.
Today's #NobelPrize in #Chemistry recognized the same revolutionary materials on display in this nano-sized art gallery: nautil.us/a-nano-sized...
A Nano-sized Art Gallery
The wee world of nanoscale research, which involves manipulating materials measuring just a billionth of a meter, yielded these mini marvels.
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October 8, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Today's #NobelPrize in #Chemistry recognized the same revolutionary materials on display in this nano-sized art gallery: nautil.us/a-nano-sized...
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The 2025 Physics Nobel Prize was awarded for macroscopic quantum tunneling. What is this and what is it good for? I have a brief summary.
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The 2025 Physics Nobel Prize: Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling
YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder
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October 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The 2025 Physics Nobel Prize was awarded for macroscopic quantum tunneling. What is this and what is it good for? I have a brief summary.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgjz...
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Today's #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine recognized immune system research breakthroughs. Check out our previous coverage on "the immune system’s tricks for identifying foreign invaders." nautil.us/how-does-any...
How Does Anyone Stay Healthy in a World Full of Germs?
Computational biology is uncovering the immune system’s tricks for identifying foreign invaders.
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October 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Today's #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine recognized immune system research breakthroughs. Check out our previous coverage on "the immune system’s tricks for identifying foreign invaders." nautil.us/how-does-any...
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A rare piece of good news: New research reveals how the Ampurta - a small carnivorous Australian marsupial - is thriving despite drought conditions. My story for @nautil.us showcases its nifty drought-resisting tricks that made this feat possible
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Deep Sleep Is This Mammal’s Super Power
Few Mammals Sleep as Deeply as the Ampurta: How a threatened Australian marsupial is thriving in the face of drought.
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October 6, 2025 at 6:38 AM
A rare piece of good news: New research reveals how the Ampurta - a small carnivorous Australian marsupial - is thriving despite drought conditions. My story for @nautil.us showcases its nifty drought-resisting tricks that made this feat possible
nautil.us/deep-sleep-i...
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The passing of Jane Goodall, the primatologist who changed the the way science views non-human animals, has unleashed a flood of remembrances. Here are stories of Goodall's lasting legacy told by the people who knew her best. nautil.us/the-indomita...
The Indomitable Jane Goodall
The Indomitable Jane Goodall: Reflections and memories from those who knew the trailblazing primatologist best
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October 3, 2025 at 4:27 PM
The passing of Jane Goodall, the primatologist who changed the the way science views non-human animals, has unleashed a flood of remembrances. Here are stories of Goodall's lasting legacy told by the people who knew her best. nautil.us/the-indomita...
A pediatrician responds to Trump and Kennedy on vaccines, autism, and Tylenol. Nautilus editor Kevin Berger talks with physician Rahul Parikh about the challenges of doctoring in days of disinformation. nautil.us/a-pediatrici...
A Pediatrician’s Lament
How the blustery rhetoric of Trump and Kennedy on autism makes life harder for local physicians—and their patients.
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September 30, 2025 at 4:43 PM
A pediatrician responds to Trump and Kennedy on vaccines, autism, and Tylenol. Nautilus editor Kevin Berger talks with physician Rahul Parikh about the challenges of doctoring in days of disinformation. nautil.us/a-pediatrici...
The science within a ghost story told around the world may be linked to the first spark of life on Earth.
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Ghostly Swamp Lightning Explained
Scientists have discovered the source of spooky will-o'-the-wisp lights from ancient lore, which may have also sparked life on Earth.
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September 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The science within a ghost story told around the world may be linked to the first spark of life on Earth.
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Diseases once relegated to history in the U.S. are poised to come surging back, causing childhood suffering and death. We have a way to prevent them. But what happens if we don't use it? Journalist @scudellari.bsky.social talked with researchers and physicians to find out. nautil.us/our-dark-unv...
Our Dark, Unvaccinated Future
Our Dark, Unvaccinated Future: Diseases that cause suffocation, paralysis, and childhood death are poised to come surging back.
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September 26, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Diseases once relegated to history in the U.S. are poised to come surging back, causing childhood suffering and death. We have a way to prevent them. But what happens if we don't use it? Journalist @scudellari.bsky.social talked with researchers and physicians to find out. nautil.us/our-dark-unv...
As the hunt for extraterrestrial life accelerates, scholars propose we grant extraterrestrials legal rights, using as a model the growing global ”rights of nature” movement. nautil.us/extraterrest...
Extraterrestrials are People, Too
Should we grant legal rights to extraterrestrial life before we have even met any in the cosmos? Some scholars say yes.
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September 24, 2025 at 6:41 PM
As the hunt for extraterrestrial life accelerates, scholars propose we grant extraterrestrials legal rights, using as a model the growing global ”rights of nature” movement. nautil.us/extraterrest...
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I had a wide-ranging conversation with psychologist Paul Bloom (@paulbloomatyale.bsky.social) about the pros and cons of AI chatbot companions, what babies have that AIs lack, and more, for @nautil.us:
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What's Wrong with Having an AI Friend?
What’s Wrong with Having an AI Friend? Psychologist Paul Bloom on why chatbots make good companions. And why they don’t.
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September 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I had a wide-ranging conversation with psychologist Paul Bloom (@paulbloomatyale.bsky.social) about the pros and cons of AI chatbot companions, what babies have that AIs lack, and more, for @nautil.us:
nautil.us/whats-wrong-...
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These scientists learned to look at frog reproductive biology through a completely different lens by adopting a queer feminist approach to framing the messiness of life. nautil.us/the-queer-li...
The Queer Lives of Frogs
The Queer Lives of Frogs: What American green frogs teach us about sex, science, and the unexpected messiness of biology
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September 22, 2025 at 6:48 PM
These scientists learned to look at frog reproductive biology through a completely different lens by adopting a queer feminist approach to framing the messiness of life. nautil.us/the-queer-li...
🐶Think your dog is smart? Playing fetch just became a whole new intellectual ballgame: Some dogs can go beyond learning hundreds of words to generalizing what sorts of things their toys might be used for. nautil.us/some-dogs-ca...
September 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
🐶Think your dog is smart? Playing fetch just became a whole new intellectual ballgame: Some dogs can go beyond learning hundreds of words to generalizing what sorts of things their toys might be used for. nautil.us/some-dogs-ca...
Some scientists want to create creatures that defy nature, claiming they can benefit drug development—but others say it’s too dangerous to attempt. nautil.us/what-to-know...
What to Know About Mirror Life
What to Know About Mirror Life: Scientists want to create a biological Bizarro World, building cells with molecules mirroring natural ones.
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September 18, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Some scientists want to create creatures that defy nature, claiming they can benefit drug development—but others say it’s too dangerous to attempt. nautil.us/what-to-know...
From Stone Age axes to internet memes, humans have the most complex cultures on Earth. Scientists have long thought culture helped drive our survival and reproduction. Now some scientists say that culture has actually overtaken genetics as the leading force shaping human evolution. bit.ly/3K8Goth
September 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM
From Stone Age axes to internet memes, humans have the most complex cultures on Earth. Scientists have long thought culture helped drive our survival and reproduction. Now some scientists say that culture has actually overtaken genetics as the leading force shaping human evolution. bit.ly/3K8Goth
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In my new @nautil.us article, I use a lot of recent research to argue that rocky exoplanets on eccentric orbits are often very good candidates for life.
(At least, eccentric/inclined orbits should not be used as a negative for habitability)
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(At least, eccentric/inclined orbits should not be used as a negative for habitability)
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Wild Orbits Prime Planets for Life
Looking for habitable worlds? Check the ones with extreme swings.
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September 9, 2025 at 7:55 AM
In my new @nautil.us article, I use a lot of recent research to argue that rocky exoplanets on eccentric orbits are often very good candidates for life.
(At least, eccentric/inclined orbits should not be used as a negative for habitability)
nautil.us/wild-orbits-...
(At least, eccentric/inclined orbits should not be used as a negative for habitability)
nautil.us/wild-orbits-...
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Our recent work (which came out in Proceedings B doi.org/10.1098/rspb...) featured in @nautil.us. Can I Give You Some Advice? nautil.us/can-i-give-y...
Can I Give You Some Advice?
Can I Give You Some Advice? I’d tell you not to read this article, but you’d probably ignore me and simply decide for yourself.
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September 12, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Our recent work (which came out in Proceedings B doi.org/10.1098/rspb...) featured in @nautil.us. Can I Give You Some Advice? nautil.us/can-i-give-y...
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H.A. Rey, co-creator of Curious George, was born #OTD in 1898. But his work extended beyond the mischievous monkey: Recently, I wrote about Rey's popular #astronomy books, which brought the stars to a generation of skywatchers: @nautil.us
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Readers Love Curious George. I Fell in Love with the Author’s Astronomy Books.
H.A. Rey recreated star maps with wit, grace, and accuracy.
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September 16, 2025 at 2:21 PM
H.A. Rey, co-creator of Curious George, was born #OTD in 1898. But his work extended beyond the mischievous monkey: Recently, I wrote about Rey's popular #astronomy books, which brought the stars to a generation of skywatchers: @nautil.us
nautil.us/readers-love...
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