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Chapter one
Sun & Ice
Biology | Animals
Can You Spot the Real Animal Hybrid?
Take our quiz on nature’s mutant offspring.
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 | Neuroscience
Michio Kaku Explains Consciousness for You
The gregarious physicist gets inside our brains.
Chapter two
Bits & Bobs
Matter | Physics
How Physics Is Like Three-Chord Rock
Like a set of common chords, the same math appears in diverse fields of physics.
Matter | Physics
10 Reasons Why You Can’t Live Without A Particle Accelerator
Particle accelerators can make you healthy and wealthy.
Matter | Physics
This Shape-Shifter Could Tell Us Why Matter Exists
Neutrinos can flit between states effortlessly, hinting at deep new physics.
Ideas | Astronomy
The Astronomer Royal
Lord Martin Rees tells us about black holes and existential risks.
Chapter three
Living Change
Biology | Evolution
If the World Began Again, Would Life as We Know It Exist?
Experiments in evolution are exploring what would happen if we rewound the tape of life.
Ideas | Philosophy
How the Mormons Conquered America
The success of the Mormon religion is a study in social adaptation.
Numbers | Computer Science
Meet the Father of Digital Life
This maverick forerunner of artificial life and animation remains largely unknown.
Biology | Insects
Ingenious: Cornelia Hesse-Honegger
A life of science and art.
Biology | Insects
Why I Traveled the World Hunting for Mutant Bugs
A researcher who works through painting tells her story.
Chapter four
The Summer 2014 Quarterly
Culture | Fiction
The Great Lindemann
Biology | Evolution
When We Were Fish
Paleontologist Neil Shubin explains how he charts evolution in the human body.
Ideas | Art
Six Pictures of Paradise
I was puzzled by the artist’s photographs of my home in the Amazon—then I looked again.
Ideas
A Summer Gaze
The Summer 2014 Quarterly tackles image and object.
Culture | Fine Art
The Challenges of Illustrating Science
Two Nautilus artists share their creative visions.
Related Facts So Romantic
“Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.” —Jules Verne
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