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You’re going to want to pick up the pace The post How Fast You Walk May Determine How Long You Live appeared first on Nautilus .

Sneaking past the sound barrier The post NASA’s New Experimental Jet Promises Supersonic Flight Without the Sonic Booms appeared first on Nautilus .

It’s a rare plant with an “enigmatic and devil-like essence” The post This New “Devil Flower” Species Doesn’t Photosynthesize appeared first on Nautilus .

Sex reversal may not be an evolutionary dead end after all The post Male Sex-Reversed Frogs Hold Their Own in Fertility Competitions appeared first on Nautilus .

Are computers in mathematics rewriting the definitions of stupid and smart? The post The Elegance of a Stupid Question appeared first on Nautilus .

Not every ant is a good samaritan The post Why Some Ants are Lazy Freeloaders appeared first on Nautilus .

Autocracy wasn’t inevitable in early civilizations—many were more egalitarian. But when riches were there to monopolize, strongmen and inequalities emerged The post What Archaeology Reveals About the Rise of All-Powerful Rulers appeared first on Nautilus .

We now know who is responsible for them, but why they’re doing it is still up for debate The post What’s Creating These Mysterious Seafloor Hexagons? appeared first on Nautilus .

But the BepiColombo twin orbiters aren’t the first spacecraft to visit our system’s smallest planet. Here’s what we’ve seen already The post After an 8-Year Journey, Orbiters Are About to Give Us a Fresh Look at Mercury appeared first on Nautilus .

Several space missions are searching for extraterrestrial life, which could come in the form of microbes The post Many Space Missions Are Searching for Life Beyond Earth—But Are We Prepared for the Fallout If They Succeed? appeared first on Nautilus .

Assisted by AI, companies have more options than ever to track employees, minute by minute, keystroke by keystroke. Does this have the desired effect? The post Your Boss Is Watching You appeared first on Nautilus .

Change you can believe in The post Ancient Coins Reveal a Wealth of Information About the Roman Republic appeared first on Nautilus .

They’re great at telling time, though The post Your Smartwatch May Not be as Smart as You Think it is appeared first on Nautilus .

A conversation with a neuroscientist about how nature can fortify the strong and support resilience The post Can Nature Benefit You If You’re Already Well? appeared first on Nautilus .

And they could shed light on our own language acquisition The post Chimps Have Accents, Too appeared first on Nautilus .

And, unlike African cheetahs, it was a flexible carnivore The post The Extinct “American Cheetah” Wasn’t a Cheetah After All appeared first on Nautilus .

And it could stick around for decades The post Astronomers Spot a Strange Atmospheric Wave Above Saturn’s South Pole appeared first on Nautilus .

Take a look, it’s in a book The post Deadly Livestock Virus Found Lurking in Ancient Texts appeared first on Nautilus .

And vacuuming might make things worse The post Your Home is Crawling With Microplastics appeared first on Nautilus .

At least at the molecular level The post No Two People Age in the Same Way appeared first on Nautilus .