Nautilus

Using physics to describe social phenomena can work—if it’s the right physics.

Lucas’ droids are halfway between human and inhuman, so we can both love and ignore them.

Astronomy and biology have been circling each other with timid infatuation since the first time a human thought about the possibility of other worlds and other suns. But the melding […]

The Internet’s flood of information, together with the distractions of social media, threaten to overwhelm the interior space of reading, stranding us in what the journalist Nicholas Carr has called […]

Three years of darkness and cold spawned crime, poverty, and a literary masterpiece.

An investigative reporter chronicles the progression of his own disease.

In the 1920s, two murderers were defended by science. The infamous case still echoes.

If our particles have no identity, how can we?

Embracing the dominant language comes at a price. Like a household that welcomes a new child, a single mind can’t admit a new language without some impact on other languages […]