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Does Anybody Really Know What Time Is?

Yes, your brain does. It created it.

July 8, 2025

What Deep Time Can Tell Us About Coral Reefs

Lisa Gardiner on the 3 greatest revelations she had while writing Reefs of Time

July 8, 2025

Art and Science in a Grain of Sand

Filmmaker Mark Levinson on the kinship between disciplines

July 7, 2025

A Hymn Lost for a Millennium

AI helped piece together clay fragments to tell a new story of Babylon

July 7, 2025

Monumental Burial Mounds Rewrite Ancient History

The colossal structures, built by hunter-gatherers, are way older than archaeologists had thought possible

July 4, 2025

Leap of Faith

Lemur mothers are bold mountaineers when hunting for food

July 3, 2025

Is It Cake? How Our Brain Deciphers Materials

Neuroscientists are discovering how this basic ability, essential to our survival, works

July 3, 2025

Lefties Aren’t as Creative as We Thought

In fact, righties may have the edge, contrary to popular belief

July 3, 2025

The Nautilus Summer Reading List

10 of our favorite recent books

July 3, 2025

Cheese Might Haunt Our Dreams

Centuries-old wisdom may ring true on food-fueled nightmares

July 2, 2025

Gaming Cancer

How community science games could help cure disease

July 2, 2025

These Bees Are Tricksters

How nomad bee species rely on deceit to provide for their offspring

July 1, 2025