This issue of Nautilus deals with fame: what it is, where it resides, and why. But we all know that fame is a fickle beast, smiling upon a fortunate few and forsaking others who are more deserving. So, tell us, who should be more famous than they are? Who’s the most underrated scientist, thinker, artist?
Rose Eveleth is Nautilus’ special media manager.
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A top-secret 1960s project tasked physics postdocs with building The Bomb
A science historian explains how science got its groove back. A fictional dispatch from the future.
The quick removal of Jimmy Carter’s futuristic solar panels echoes more recent feuds over renewables
People have only recently included Indigenous voices in the story
Scientists in Berlin performed a battery of tests on a 3,400-year-old weapon
Octave Chanute’s engineering prowess laid the foundation for powered planes
