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A United States Army Lieutenant was the first to forecast the deadly storms in the late 1800s. Then he was told to stop. The post In the Midst of Tornado Season, a Surprisingly Short History of Predicting Twisters appeared first on Nautilus .

A conversation with an expert in geomythology about a wild idea The post Can “Dante’s Inferno” Tell Us Something About Space Rocks? appeared first on Nautilus .

A new look at puma-human encounters in the mountains of California The post How to Dodge a Mountain Lion appeared first on Nautilus .

In this age of AI anxiety, listen to your heart The post The Inventor of the Thinking Machine Didn’t Worry. Neither Should You appeared first on Nautilus .

Author and physicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein on the crisis in American science The post Science Is Political—and Spiritual appeared first on Nautilus .

The remnants of a star that exploded 1,700 years ago The post Take a Gander at an Ancient Supernova in the Heart of the Milky Way appeared first on Nautilus .

And researchers have a new theory for her untimely demise The post The Model for Botticelli’s Venus Died at 23 appeared first on Nautilus .

But not for all women The post The Birth-Control Pill May Encourage Binge Eating appeared first on Nautilus .

A new shark species just dropped The post This Shark Can Walk on Land appeared first on Nautilus .

A conversation with a philosopher about extraterrestrial and machine minds The post Aliens Probably Have Consciousness appeared first on Nautilus .

A new in-depth analysis casts doubt on the popular supplements The post If You’re Counting on Calcium and Vitamin D Supplements to Prevent Fractures, Think Again appeared first on Nautilus .

Only a handful of vaquitas exist in the wild, but now one is preserved in unprecedented digital detail The post Saving a Tiny Endangered Porpoise One Pixel at a Time appeared first on Nautilus .

The Soviet Union beat the United States to the punch by 20 years The post This Cosmonaut Was the First Woman in Space appeared first on Nautilus .

It maintains the balance of the X chromosome The post Does This Protein Hold the Key to Differences in Aging Between Males and Females? appeared first on Nautilus .

Life sure has been some crazy journey The post The Nautilus Reading List of Books on Evolution appeared first on Nautilus .

A new view of the prisoner’s dilemma The post Does Cooperation Beat Cheating After All? appeared first on Nautilus .

A new meta-analysis stacks three leading GLP-1 medications against each other The post Is This the King of GLP-1s? appeared first on Nautilus .

The sum is hard to comprehend The post What Is a Trillion, Really? appeared first on Nautilus .

Kids who can hold it together until the final bell may be primed for more academic success in life The post Bad Third-Grade Behavior Could be a Preview of Educational Failure appeared first on Nautilus .

They preceded vertebrates on land by about 80 million years The post These Ancient Millipedes Paved the Way for Terrestrial Life appeared first on Nautilus .