Communication
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The Most Beautiful Science of the Year
The best things we learned at Nautilus in 2022.
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How Shannon Entropy Imposes Fundamental Limits on Communication
What’s a message, really? Claude Shannon recognized that the elemental ingredient is surprise.
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The Trouble With “The Big Bang”
A rash of recent articles illustrates a longstanding confusion over the famous term.
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The Case for Popularizing Ocean Science
Why Schmidt Ocean Institute’s Carlie Wiener thinks octopuses and science fiction matter to ocean conservation.
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A Surprising Side of Carl Sagan
In Contact, the great science advocate posed a religious question about the cosmos.
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How Do We Get People Who Believe in Pseudoscience to Trust Science?
It’s time to ask a scientist.
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Mysteries Are to Be Embraced, But Also to Be Solved
Science doesn’t rob the world of wonder. It amplifies it.
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A Voice for Minorities in Aquaculture
Imani Black is working to bring people of color into marine conservation and production.
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We Better Think Twice About What We Say to ET
Extraterrestrials could take our intergalactic message in entirely the wrong way.
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How Putin’s War Is Sinking Climate Science
An American journalist leaves Russia as war breaks up the international collaboration key to climate research in the Arctic.
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The Ocean Explorer Who Wants Us to Reconnect with Nature
High 5 to Barbara Veiga: activist, photographer, and filmmaker.
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How Speeding up Science Aided the Fight Against COVID-19
High throughput technology is central to the COVID-19 fight.
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The Man Who Seduced the World with Whale Songs
Roger Payne sparked the anti-whaling movement. He’s not done yet.
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Talking Pop Science with Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder
As abstract as it is, physics enriches your life.Image via Sabine Hossenfelder / YouTube Science without the gobbledygook.” That’s the name, and promise, of Sabine Hossenfelder’s YouTube show. The German theoretical physicist, whose main gig is as a Research Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, has attracted over 300,000 subscribers. Her videos—some of […]
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Bringing Activism Home to Roost
Middle school filmmaker spotlights the plight of birds in his home state.
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Youth Activists Push Schools’ Retirement Fund to Divest
Redford Center Stories highest distinction film focuses on the financial side of fighting climate change.
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To the Passionate Youth: Why Wait?
Eloise Sent’s Redford Center Stories film entry says that young people can change the world right now—so don’t wait.
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The “Lab Leak”: It’s Not Enough to Say Accidents Happen
So far no one has come up with any clear account of how a coronavirus escaped biosafety level 4 barriers. Photograph by MihasLi / Shutterstock Disasters evoke a search for who to blame. Mishandled disasters make that search vital for anyone whose actions or inactions may have amplified the catastrophe’s damage. As the official United […]
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“Even Little Things” Add Up to Justice
Redford Center Stories Highest Distinction prizewinner highlights how small actions can have big impacts.
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Celebrating Women Scientists
The small wonders of the natural world impressed Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya early. As a girl, growing up in Atlanta, she was encouraged by her mother to draw sketches of things she could find in her backyard—a butterfly’s wing, a peanut shell—as they appeared in her microscope. “Looking back,” she said, in a 2017 TED Talk, “I […]
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The English Word That Hasn’t Changed in Sound or Meaning in 8,000 Years
The word lox was one of the clues that eventually led linguists to discover who the Proto-Indo-Europeans were, and where they lived.Photograph by Helen Cook / Flickr One of my favorite words is lox,” says Gregory Guy, a professor of linguistics at New York University. There is hardly a more quintessential New York food than […]
