Browsing: John Steele

The director of the National Science Foundation on what brought her back to science.

One biologist’s love for science got kickstarted by snakes.

Patrick Soon-Shiong is opening a new front in the war on the deadly disease.

Meet the architectural rebel who champions ancient engineers.

The eminent oceanographer Walter Munk reflects on science and war.

ASU Paul Davies has a lot on his mind—or perhaps more accurate to say in his mind. A physicist at Arizona State University, he does research on a wide range of topics, from the abstract fields of theoretical physics and cosmology to the more concrete realm of astrobiology, the study of life in places beyond […]

Stories about a life spent searching for life among the stars.

Gary Marcus can’t understand why people are shocked when he calls the brain a computer. The 43-year-old professor of psychology at New York University, author of Kluge, about the haphazard evolution of the brain, and a leading researcher in how children acquire language, grins and says it’s a generational thing. “I know there’s a philosophical school of […]

The truth will set us free, so long as we remember to challenge it.

In each issue of Nautilus, we shine a spotlight on one “Ingenious” scientist whose work makes us reconsider our world and ourselves. The Ingenious for our first issue, “What Makes You So Special,” is Columbia University astrophysicist Caleb Scharf, who contributed an essay about our place in the universe and talked about his life and […]