That's a wrap on Climate Week NYC 2025. But good news for those who have still have their heads in the clouds: The latest issue of Nautilus, all about wild climates, is now live at nautil.us/climates. | Nautilus Magazine
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That's a wrap on Climate Week NYC 2025. But good news for those who have still have their heads in the clouds: The latest issue of Nautilus, all about wild climates, is now live at nautil.us/climates. | Nautilus Magazine
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One might wonder how a single psilocybin trip could compare to the catalog of rich transcendent experiences that might accumulate over a lifetime of religious devotion. Now, nearly a decade later, the results of this controversial experiment have come to light. Some of these clergy have become evangelists for psychedelics, incorporating them into their own religious teachings. For some of them, the experience led to a release from attachment to dogmas and greater openness to other forms of relig
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One might wonder how a single psilocybin trip could compare to the catalog of rich transcendent experiences that might accumulate over a lifetime of religious devotion. Now, nearly a decade later, the results of this controversial experiment have come to light. Some of these clergy have become evangelists for psychedelics, incorporating them into their own religious teachings. For some of them, the experience led to a release from attachment to dogmas and greater openness to other forms of relig
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Sorry to be a Christmas bummer, but reindeer are in trouble. Recognized for their imposing antlers, thick winter coats, and ability to survive in harsh environments, these majestic creatures are native to the frigid tundras and forests of North America, Siberia, and northern Europe. Historically, reindeer played a huge part in helping humans to settle these frigid latitudes, and are vital to the ecosystems and cultures of the places where they live and roam. But a recent analysis suggests they a
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Sorry to be a Christmas bummer, but reindeer are in trouble. Recognized for their imposing antlers, thick winter coats, and ability to survive in harsh environments, these majestic creatures are native to the frigid tundras and forests of North America, Siberia, and northern Europe. Historically, reindeer played a huge part in helping humans to settle these frigid latitudes, and are vital to the ecosystems and cultures of the places where they live and roam. But a recent analysis suggests they a
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Icelandic horses are renowned for their unique gaits, which set them apart from other breeds. Beyond the standard walk, trot, canter, and gallop, they possess the ability to tölt—a smooth, four-beat gait—and perform the flying pace, or skeið, a high-speed lateral gait used in racing. These distinctive movements have long fascinated breeders and scientists alike, and recent genetic research is shedding new light on what enables these horses to move the way they do. A groundbreaking study led by r
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Icelandic horses are renowned for their unique gaits, which set them apart from other breeds. Beyond the standard walk, trot, canter, and gallop, they possess the ability to tölt—a smooth, four-beat gait—and perform the flying pace, or skeið, a high-speed lateral gait used in racing. These distinctive movements have long fascinated breeders and scientists alike, and recent genetic research is shedding new light on what enables these horses to move the way they do. A groundbreaking study led by r
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From designing phone cameras to detecting diseases, Advanced Science Research Center at The Graduate Center, CUNY researcher Enrico’s work has all kinds of applications in our world. | Nautilus Magazine
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From designing phone cameras to detecting diseases, Advanced Science Research Center at The Graduate Center, CUNY researcher Enrico’s work has all kinds of applications in our world. | Nautilus Magazine
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You probably don't need to worry about radiation from microwaves and x-ray machines. The wild boars living deep in the woods of Southeast Germany, though? Absolutely. For a few years after the Chornobyl accident, all forest animals—including deer, hares, and pheasants—were highly radioactive. But eventually these levels waned in most game. Curiously, the wild boars remained radioactive. “The phenomenon of wild boars being so radioactive after such a long time has been termed the wild boar parado
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You probably don't need to worry about radiation from microwaves and x-ray machines. The wild boars living deep in the woods of Southeast Germany, though? Absolutely. For a few years after the Chornobyl accident, all forest animals—including deer, hares, and pheasants—were highly radioactive. But eventually these levels waned in most game. Curiously, the wild boars remained radioactive. “The phenomenon of wild boars being so radioactive after such a long time has been termed the wild boar parado
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Researchers pitted the collective problem-solving skills of humans against a cadre of Paratrechina longicornis—better known as longhorn crazy ants. To do so, they set both species loose to solve a puzzling problem involving shoving an awkward shape through a simple maze. It would require cooperation, stamina, trial-and-error—and perhaps even a bit of sacrificing one’s ego to the greater cause. As it turns out, ants are pretty smart when you get them together. When they join forces, as they did i
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Icelandic horses are renowned for their unique gaits, which set them apart from other breeds. Beyond the standard walk, trot, canter, and gallop, they possess the ability to tölt—a smooth, four-beat gait—and perform the flying pace, or skeið, a high-speed lateral gait used in racing. These distinctive movements have long fascinated breeders and scientists alike, and recent genetic research is shedding new light on what enables these horses to move the way they do. A groundbreaking study led by r
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Icelandic horses are renowned for their unique gaits, which set them apart from other breeds. Beyond the standard walk, trot, canter, and gallop, they possess the ability to tölt—a smooth, four-beat gait—and perform the flying pace, or skeið, a high-speed lateral gait used in racing. These distinctive movements have long fascinated breeders and scientists alike, and recent genetic research is shedding new light on what enables these horses to move the way they do. A groundbreaking study led by r
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Some frogs are clumsier than others. Enter the pumpkin toadlet, captured here by amphibian disease ecologist Shannon Buttimer. This tiny frog has the smallest ear canals recorded in any vertebrate, and since the inner ear is typically responsible for regulating balance, they can't reorient themselves quickly enough to stick the landing. These frogs make it work, though. They use jumping as a defense mechanism, and focus on distance over grace. Their color allows them to match leaf debris, and up
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Don't underestimate the intelligence of an orangutan. Watch Kecil, an orangutan residing at the Brookfield Zoo, retrieve food from a wall using his own tool. Archaeologists have long considered tool use to be an evolutionary milestone that distinguished our lineage from other animals, but archaeologist Michael Haslam and Harvard lecturer Abigail Desmond believe it's time to rethink the meaning of tool use—and what it implies about the intelligence of humans, nonhuman animals, and our evolutionar
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Unlock the secrets of the universe! Get ready to explore the uncharted territories where science, art & philosophy collide. Dive into the Nautilus Newsletter and discover new ideas that will blow your mind! Subscribe now | Nautilus Magazine
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Unlock the secrets of the universe! Get ready to explore the uncharted territories where science, art & philosophy collide. Dive into the Nautilus Newsletter and discover new ideas that will blow your mind! Subscribe now | Nautilus Magazine
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Unlock a World of Knowledge Experience the intersection of Science, Art & Philosophy with this free newsletter. | Nautilus Magazine
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In a modest rectangular enclosure surrounded by sparse green shrubbery, just past the main gate of San Diego Zoo Safari Park, a middle-aged hyacinth macaw blasts Daft Punk on his bespoke boombox. His name is Sampson and he likes to dance. Sampson can operate the boombox, aptly named JoyBranch, by biting or holding on to a kind of joystick made to look like a slice of log with a twig protruding from it. Motion sensorskeep the music going as long as he bobs and nods, dipping his head in rhythm. An
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The dragonfly possesses one of the most unique and impressive powers of flight on our planet. Unlike most other insects, they have two pairs of wings that flap independently. They can turn up to 180 degrees in two or three wing beats and generate aerodynamic force—a combination of lift, weight, thrust, and drag—equal to over four times their own body weight. They can hover and glide. They are so adept at flying that, in the past couple of years, some researchers have begun studying them to help
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Frog skin is “an extraordinarily fertile source for drug development.” The slime coating frog bodies could hold the key to fighting infections, healings wounds and even curing cancer. Read Sofia Quaglia's piece –The Secret Superpowers of Frog Skin–as she sheds light on Carolina Muñoz's fascinating field work in the Amazon, https://nautil.us/the-marvelous-medicinal-properties-of-frog-skin-1245861/ | Nautilus Magazine
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For decades, forests were understood from the surface up: trunks, canopies, scattered roots. What lay beneath—fungi, roots, and their dense entanglements—barely registered. In a conversation with forest ecologist Suzanne Simard, Nautilus explores how that picture has changed. Over the past 20 years, Simard’s work on mycorrhizae—the symbiotic partnerships between fungi and roots—has shown that trees are connected not only to soil, but to one another. Carbon, nutrients, and water move through fung
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This time-lapse video of a prominence above the solar surface reveals its rapid, fine, and turbulent restructuring with unprecedented detail. The sun’s fluffy-looking surface is covered by “spicules,” short-lived plasma jets, whose origin is still a subject of scientific debate. The streaks on the right side of this image are coronal rain falling down onto the sun’s surface. The video was recorded with the help of an adaptive optics system called Cona, which has a flexible mirror that can counte
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