Earth's Asteroid Defense Plan | Nautilus Narrations with Sunshine Nate
For decades, scientists, engineers, and others in the planetary defense community have been theorizing on ways to interrupt the journey of an Earth-bound asteroid. In this episode of Nautilus Narratio...
6 Juni 202531min
A Wild Idea to Protect the Great Barrier Reef | Nautilus Narrations with Summer Collins
Following devastating heat waves in 2016 and 2017 that caused intense bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef, it was impossible to ignore the existential vulnerability of coral in a warming world. In res...
16 Maj 202512min
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Uncertainty | Nautilus Narrations with Paul M. Sutter
"Quantum mechanics is confusing, nonintuitive, and seemingly nonsensical. What I found through my journey is that this confusion and senselessness isn’t a bug, but a feature, and creates a new way to ...
2 Maj 202521min
Friendship is a Lifesaver | Nautilus Narrations with Kai
Science has been accumulating evidence that friendship isn’t just critical for our happiness, but also our health and longevity.Friendship is also particularly important to acclaimed street artist and...
18 Apr 202514min
The Future of Food Looks Small, Dense, and Very Bushy | Nautilus Narrations with Tinger Hseih
The way we live is out of balance with the way we eat. Urbanization and population growth will require more farmland, more transportation, and an even bigger ecological footprint—unless we can find mo...
4 Apr 20256min
We'll Miss the Vulture | Nautilus Narrations with Liz Clayton Fuller
Throughout history, vultures have been burdened with an image evoking notions of death, greed, and moral emptiness. Yet, scientists argue that these misunderstood birds are far more valuable than thei...
20 Mars 202511min
What Makes Music Universal? | Nautilus Narrations with Emperor X
The debate over whether music is universal has intensified, with scholars from various fields weighing in on the idea that all music shares fundamental traits. Some ethnomusicologists argue that label...
7 Mars 202526min
The First Good Glimpse of the Earth’s Mantle | Nautilus Narrations with Cate Larsen
A team of engineers and scientists recently accomplished an astonishing feat: they drilled into the Earth's mantle, retrieving a core sample nearly a mile long.Watch Cate Larsen aka GroovyGeologist ...
21 Feb 20258min
