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Your Brain Is On the Brink of Chaos

Neurological evidence for chaos in the nervous system is growing.

June 25, 2014

Dude, Where’s My Frontal Cortex?

There’s a method to the madness of the teenage brain.

June 25, 2014

The Scientific Problem That Must Be Experienced

To understand turbulence we need the intuitive perspective of art.

June 25, 2014

How Does Turbulence Get Started?

The high stakes of solving one of science’s most obstinate problems.

June 25, 2014

To Predict Turbulence, Just Count the Puffs

These tiny swirls of fluid live, die, reproduce, and spark turbulence.

June 25, 2014

The Challenges of Illustrating Science

Two Nautilus artists share their creative visions.

June 17, 2014

Six Pictures of Paradise

I was puzzled by the artist’s photographs of my home in the Amazon—then I looked again.

June 9, 2014

A Strange New Gene Pool of Animals Is Brewing in the Arctic

Scientists have seen the future and it is “grolar bears.”

June 2, 2014

If the World Began Again, Would Life as We Know It Exist?

Experiments in evolution are exploring what would happen if we rewound the tape of life.

May 30, 2014

This Shape-Shifter Could Tell Us Why Matter Exists

Neutrinos can flit between states effortlessly, hinting at deep new physics.

May 30, 2014