Author: Anthony Mariano

Two-thirds of a year ago, we set loose a new online science magazine, and along with it, Facts So Romantic. Since then FSR has served as the bloggy alter ego to the online-magazine version of Nautilus, burrowing into the same mind-expanding monthly topics with a quicker, lighter approach. Thanks to contributions from a great group […]

Why the Milky Way looks like it spirals.

Butterflies tied together Vladimir Nabokov’s home, science, and writing.

Nature manages information, the currency of life, with exquisite efficiency.

Searching for the ultimate example of recycling? Look in the mirror.

We learn as kids that knowledge is power—secret knowledge even more so.

Back in the 1840s, Morse code was a ground-breaking approach for sending messages over a hot, new communications medium called the electrical telegraph. Earlier this year, the last telegram ever was sent, yet Morse code is not entirely out of a job. NASA’s cutting-edge Curiosity Mars rover, built by JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), uses this […]

Former correction officer Gary Klivans doesn’t want to be photographed more clearly for fear of gang retaliation.Gary Klivans As a corrections officer at a Westchester County, N.Y., prison in the 1990s, Gary Klivans was a one-man gang unit. Members of The Latin Kings and the Bloods made up a sizable part of the prison population. […]

Composer Edward Elgar still has cryptographers playing his tune.

Opening locked minds with music.