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Lisa S. Gardiner is a writer, geoscientist, and educator whose work has appeared in Scientific American, The Atlantic, bioGraphic, and other publications. Her second nonfiction book, <a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691247335/reefs-of-time?srsltid=AfmBOopVqyhkwLk59g-d8vlzyYmuqB-KTEhmAbl4XctK3hNSaEsdOewd">Reefs of Time: What Fossils Reveal about Coral Survival</a>, was published in June 2025.

Lisa S. Gardiner

Environment

What Deep Time Can Tell Us About Coral Reefs

Sidney Perkowitz, Candler Professor of Physics Emeritus, Emory University, is the author of Empire of Light: A History of Discovery in Science and Art and other writings about science in art and culture.

Sidney Perkowitz

Arts

Art and Science in a Grain of Sand

Molly Glick is the newsletter editor of Nautilus.

Molly Glick

History

A Hymn Lost for a Millennium

Skylar Knight is a freelance writer and science communicator focused on nature, wildlife, and conservation. He has a Master&#8217;s degree in science communication from Imperial College London and has produced content for film, radio, and print.

Skylar Knight

Zoology

Leap of Faith

Dale Markowitz is a writer and software engineer based in Austin, Texas.

Dale Markowitz

Neuroscience

Is It Cake? How Our Brain Deciphers Materials

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

Lefties Aren’t as Creative as We Thought

Nautilus Editors

The Nautilus Summer Reading List

Psychology

Cheese Might Haunt Our Dreams

Sarah Milligan is a Minnesota-based writer and photographer focusing on the intersection of community, conservation, and culture. Her work has appeared in Atlas Obscura, Rewilding Magazine, and others. She holds postgraduate degrees in conservation science from Imperial College London and environment and development from the London School of Economics.

Sarah Milligan

These Bees Are Tricksters

Katherine Harmon Courage is the executive editor at Nautilus.

Katherine Harmon Courage

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

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.

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