US Edition
News from Nautilus
Media Bias Ratings
Average Bias Rating:
Center
Center
byAll SidesDo you diasgree?
Edit bias
Learn more about Media Bias Ratings.
Factuality
Learn more about Factuality Ratings
Reveal Factuality Ratings by upgrading to a Premium account.
Tap Upgrade to explore subscription options to meet all your reading needs.
Ownership
Learn more about Ownership categories
Reveal Ownership Data by upgrading to a Vantage account.
Tap Upgrade to explore subscription options to meet all your reading needs.
Top Nautilus News
Phoenix, Arizona · PhoenixImagine yourself in the cockpit of a fighter jet, practicing maneuvers over the desert of the American Southwest. Suddenly your altimeter reading is falling, and you must act quickly. The complex panel of instruments in front of you should be second nature to use, but in the moment of crisis, the panels blur together, and your muscle memory must take over. You begin to make adjustments to solve the problem while simultaneously considering the wo…See the Story
How Talking Machines Got Their Voices
100% Center coverage: 1 sources
Texas, United States · TexasAt first glance, these little star-shaped plants look anything but intimidating. They sprout butter-yellow flowers and downy fuzz and, measuring just a few centimeters across, they are so discreet that they belong to a class of plants botanists affectionately call “belly plants”—those that are best observed while lying on the ground. Yet researchers recently dubbed this new-to-science species the Woolly Devil (Ovicula biradiata), so-called becau…See the Story
A Closer Look at the Woolly Devil
100% Center coverage: 1 sources
Buenos Aires · Buenos AiresIn 2022, Carla Crossman was analyzing the genes of southern right whales when she came across something unexpected.
Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience.
Log in
or
Join now
.
Decades earlier, in 1989, researchers had used special crossbows to collect small skin samples from 10 southern right whales in their calving grounds off Argentina’s Valdés Peninsula, as part of an effort to assess the species’ genetic diversity. Crossman, a grad…See the Story
Discovering the First Intersex Southern Right Whale
100% Center coverage: 1 sources
Duisburg · DuisburgThe secret to the formation of planets may lie in ordinary static electricity—the same phenomenon that can make your hair stand on end or give you an electric shock after walking across a carpet.
Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience.
Log in
or
Join now
.
A new study, published in Nature Astronomy, suggests that static electricity allows tiny dust particles in protoplanetary disks—the rotating platters of gas and dust that form around …See the Story
How Pebbles Form Planets
100% Center coverage: 1 sources
Portugal · PortugalAfter 30 hours on a stormy sea aboard a Portuguese Navy ship, we finally made it to our destination in the middle of the ocean. Here, 124 miles or so off the coast of Lisbon, lies the tallest mountain in western Europe, only it’s underwater: the Gorringe Seamount. I had traveled there with an international team of scientists who, over a period of weeks, dove from a four-masted sailboat into the deep blue. They had traveled to the seamount to stu…See the Story
The Mystery of the Pregnant Rays
100% Center coverage: 1 sources
New York State · New YorkCreated by the Nautilus marketing team
Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience.
Log in
or
Join now
.
This article is part of series of Nautilus interviews with artists, you can read the rest here.Science and art are two sides of the same coin. From da Vinci’s “Vitruvian Man” to Darwin’s sketches of finches to modern data visualization infographics, illustration has played a vital role in both recording and communicating scientific knowle…See the Story
Celebrating the Relationship Between Science and Illustration
100% Center coverage: 1 sources
Nauru · NauruAuthor Jack Lohmann started thinking about phosphorus when he learned the story of Nauru, the world’s smallest island nation, which lies between Australia and Hawaii. In 1899, a geologist named Albert Ellis discovered a strange rock propping open a door at a trading and plantation firm there named the Pacific Islands Company and realized it was in fact high-grade phosphate ore, a highly sought after source of fertilizer. That discovery sparked a…See the Story
The Deadly Story of a Life-Giving Element
100% Center coverage: 1 sources
