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It may well make more sense to improve an already proven technology—fission.

Life, death, and Sputnik.

When was the last time you awoke right at the first peak of day? Or put away your work simply because night was falling? We are less and less tied to rhythms of natural time, living instead in the glow of computers and smartphone screens. Our days and nights roll by, marked as much by […]

Our home in the universe continues to rock out of control.

Jodie Foster listens for aliens in Contact. Yesterday Science published a study including “strong evidence that Voyager 1,” an unmanned spacecraft launched in 1977, “has crossed the heliopause into the nearby interstellar plasma.” Don’t let the scientific understatement fool you—the researchers are saying that the craft became the first handiwork of humanity to slip out […]

Last week, we challenged Nautilus readers to name a whole cabinet-full of freaky, weird, and wonderful objects. It was a difficult challenge, but now is the time to end your agonizing wait and reveal the secrets of our wunderkammern, our “cabinet of wonder.” Here are the answers: Pompeii wall art Dinosaur coprolite Shroud of Turin Marilyn Monroe autograph […]

Stories about a life spent searching for life among the stars.

Pick your favorite travel mode—big, small, light, dark, or twisted.

What the second law of thermodynamics has to do with Saint Augustine, landscape art, and graphic novels.

Decoding divinity, or what the great intellectuals of our time have to say about science and spirituality.