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Nautilus

Katherine Harmon Courage is the executive editor at Nautilus.

Katherine Harmon Courage

Environment

Saltier, Hotter Sea Springs a Leak in Ice Sheets

John Steele is the publisher and editorial director of Nautilus.

John Steele

Philosophy

The Past Is a Ghost and the Future a Fantasy

Liz Greene is the managing editor at Nautilus.

Liz Greene

General

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Laura Spinney is a writer and science journalist. Her writing on science has appeared in The Guardian, The Economist, Nature and National Geographic, among others. She is the author of two novels, The Doctor (2001) and The Quick (2007), and a collection of oral history, Rue Centrale (2013). Her bestselling non-fiction account of the 1918 flu pandemic, Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World (2017), was translated into more than 20 languages. Her latest book, Proto: How Once Ancient Language Went Global, the story of the Indo-European languages, appeared in 2025. She lives in Paris.

Laura Spinney

Communication

Chasing Lost Languages

Molly Glick is the newsletter editor of Nautilus.

Molly Glick

Zoology

Laughing Apes Take Risks

Kevin Berger is the editor at large of Nautilus.

Kevin Berger

Arts

“There Were Periods When I Felt He Ruined My Life”

Timothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University and the author of numerous books, including <a href="https://cup.columbia.edu/book/dark-ecology/9780231177528/">Dark Ecology</a> (Columbia University Press), <a href="https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674034853">Ecology Without Nature</a> (Harvard University Press), and <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262551755/being-ecological/">Being Ecological</a>, from which this article is excerpted.

Timothy Morton

Your Mind Is Part of the Ecosystem

Bob Grant is the deputy editor at Nautilus.

Bob Grant

Ancient Seas Hosted the Ultimate Squid Game

Gabriel Popkin is a freelance science and environmental writer based in Mount Rainier, Maryland, just outside the nation’s capital. He has written for Science, Nature, The New York Times, Johns Hopkins Magazine, APS News and many others.

Gabriel Popkin

Microbiology

The Ecosystem Dynamics That Can Make or Break an Invasion

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

Astronomy

Rethinking the Big Bang

Susan Schneider writes about the nature of the self and mind, especially from the vantage point of issues in philosophy, AI, cognitive science, and astrobiology. She is the author of <a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691180144/artificial-you?srsltid=AfmBOoqugRz3a5aF_PSB4ojaT3k5wDg_Zv9hjaOS7m4eXivccV3rq48x">Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind</a>. Before founding the <a href="https://www.fau.edu/future-mind/">Center for the Future of Mind, AI, and Society</a> at Florida Atlantic University, where she is the William F. Dietrich Distinguished Professor, she held the NASA-Blumberg Chair with NASA and the Distinguished Scholar Chair at the Library of Congress. Her op-eds have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, and The Financial Times.

Susan Schneider

Technology

AI Already Knows Us Too Well

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.

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