Culture | Environment
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Chapter one
Return to Africa
Biology | Environment
The Natural World Is an Elephant World
Without large herbivores, the wilderness would be a wasteland.
Biology | Evolution
A Holy Land for Religion and Science
In Ethiopia, evolution is not a threat to people of faith.
Biology | Evolution
Turning Back the Clock on Human Evolution
Digging through the world’s oldest graveyard with African paleontologists.
Culture | Environment
So I Told These Nomads About the Big Bang…
Anna Badkhen tells us about the experiences that led to her Nautilus feature.
Chapter two
Invasions
Biology | Environment
What the Deer Are Telling Us
A lesson in home improvement.
Biology | Oceanography
Pirates, Killer Whales, and Cheap Jewelry: A Life in Science
Near the end of my long career, I want to save the animal that started it.
Biology
Ingenious: Peter Ward
Call the daring marine biologist and paleontologist “Professor Nautilus.”
Biology | Environment
A Strange New Gene Pool of Animals Is Brewing in the Arctic
Scientists have seen the future and it is “grolar bears.”
Biology | Insects
Ants Go Marching
More than an expert traveler, the fire ant is the ultimate invader.
Chapter three
By Land and By Sea
Ideas | Environment
Songbirds in the Suburbs
House finches, Costco, and remaking the American wild.
Culture | Health
Blissed-Out Fish on Prozac
Why we can’t get our water supply free of drugs.
Biology | Genetics
The Menu Says “Snapper.” Really?
DNA barcodes could keep restaurants honest.
Culture | Fiction
On the Wilderness Continent
Building new lands requires sacrifice.
Biology | Animals
The New Flight of the Ibis
How a determined scientist taught an ancient species to migrate again.
Numbers | Insects
What to Eat After the Apocalypse
Engineer Joshua Pearce explains how to feed 7 billion people after a global catastrophe.
Chapter four
Second Look
Ideas | Art
Six Pictures of Paradise
I was puzzled by the artist’s photographs of my home in the Amazon—then I looked again.
Matter | Physics
Discovering the Expected
In the search for subatomic particles, it helps to know what you’re looking for.
Biology | Environment
The Decisive Moment
A photographer’s quest for the unexpected.
Ideas | Paleontology
T. Rex Might be the Thing with Feathers
Behind every famous dinosaur are unsung heroes.
Chapter five
Behind the Scenes
Matter | Astronomy
Don’t Write Off ET Quite Yet
It’s true that we haven’t seen alien life, but neither have we seen much of the universe.
Biology | Animals
The Queen of the Cumberland River
When I traveled south to research fire ants, I discovered a different kind of hive.
Ideas | Neuroscience
These Are Their Brains on Silence
How silence affects the scientists who study it.
Ideas | Environment
Art Is Long, Science Is Longer
My years surveying trees in the Amazon taught me the forest is unknowable.
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“Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.” —Jules Verne
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