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Nautilus

Sara Kiley Watson is a climate and science journalist currently based in the Netherlands.

Sara Kiley Watson

Zoology

How Skinks and Honey Badgers Fight Snake Venom

Peter Brannen is an award-winning science journalist and contributing writer at the Atlantic. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, the Washington Post, The New Yorker, Wired, and the Guardian, among other publications. His first book, The Ends of the World, was published in 2017. Peter was a 2024 visiting scholar at the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, and is an affiliate at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado-Boulder.

Peter Brannen

Environment

When Our World Was a Wasteland

Katherine Harmon Courage is the executive editor at Nautilus.

Katherine Harmon Courage

Psychology

Looking at Art on Psychedelics

Bob Grant is the deputy editor at Nautilus.

Bob Grant

Astronomy

The Cosmos Is Trying to Kill Us

Molly Glick is the newsletter editor of Nautilus.

Molly Glick

This Mars Probe Went Missing

Tom Metcalfe is a science journalist based in London, where he writes mainly about space, energy, archaeology, Earth, and the oceans. He has written for Scientific American, National Geographic, Live Science, NBC News, BBC News, and others.

Tom Metcalfe

Eye of Sauron Hints at Cosmic Mystery

John Steele is the publisher and editorial director of Nautilus.

John Steele

It’s a Plastic World, After All

Kristen French is an associate editor at Nautilus. She has worked in science journalism since 2013, reporting and writing features and news for publications such as Wired, Backchannel, The Verge, and New York Magazine. She has a masters degree in science journalism from Columbia University.

Kristen French

History

When the Ocean Floor Came Alive

A. Kendra Greene is the author and illustrator of No Less Strange or Wonderful: Essays in Curiosity and The Museum of Whales You Will Never See. A writer and book artist, her work is also published in Atlas Obscura, The Guardian, Orion, and The Wall Street Journal. It has come into being with fellowships from Fulbright, MacDowell, Dobie Paisano, UNC special collections, Library Innovation Lab at Harvard, and The American Library in Paris.

A. Kendra Greene

With Regard to the Invisible

Alice Sun is a science journalist based in Brooklyn, N.Y. Her work frequently covers biology, the environment, social science, mental health, and more. More of her work can be found on <a href="https://www.alicesun.ca/">her website</a> and <a>X</a> (formerly known as Twitter).

Alice Sun

Microbiology

A Rogue New Life Form

Jack Hartnell is a historian, author and curator. He is head of research at the <a href="https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/">National Gallery, London</a>, and Honorary Associate Professor of Art History at the <a href="https://www.uea.ac.uk/about/school-of-politics-philosophy-and-area-studies">University of East Anglia, Norwich</a>. His research specializes in the art of the late medieval and Early Modern periods and the history of medicine and health. He has authored <a href="https://www.jackhartnell.com/writing">Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages</a> and <a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691243481/wound-man?srsltid=AfmBOopDk6fDHv6lEw-RvzopJ8qDoZBfwr8hZRInnECrCkLRxz6J6U4q">Wound Man: The Many Lives of a Surgical Image</a>

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