Nautilus

We predicted cell phones, but not women in the workplace.

Kim Stanley Robinson imagines our future.

Australian bioethicist Julian Savulescu has a knack for provocation. Take human cloning. He says most of us would readily accept it if it benefited us. As for eugenics—creating smarter, stronger, more beautiful babies—he believes we have an ethical obligation to use advanced technology to select the best possible children.

How a homemade piece of lab equipment is recreating chemical evolution on early Earth.

The ratio of boys to girls at conception has been misunderstood for centuries.

The brilliant compromise between efficiency and ability in your head.

As bodies meld with machines, are we leaving ourselves behind?

An argument for a new definition of color.

Neurological evidence for chaos in the nervous system is growing.