Katherine Harmon Courage
Journalist and Deputy Editor at Nautilus
Science journalist. Deputy editor @NautilusMag. Author CULTURED https://t.co/oEWrnXCYQb + OCTOPUS! https://t.co/jZCLEXanKs. Co-parent. Runner. Fair weather gardener.
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5 days ago |
nautil.us | Katherine Harmon Courage
One night in the 1770s, an optician showed a pastor a microscope. The theologian, Johann August Ephraim Goeze, was so taken that he sold his library to purchase one for himself. “The very next day, he began his exploration of the microscopic world,” writes Ralph O. Schill of the University of Stuttgart in Germany, in a paper about the discoveries Goeze would soon make. Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now .
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1 week ago |
nautil.us | Katherine Harmon Courage
The full Nautilus archive • eBooks & Special Editions • Ad-free reading The full Nautilus archive eBooks & Special Editions Ad-free reading The megalodon shark is popular quarry of cryptozoologists, who speculate about the legendary creature’s persistence in our oceans.
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2 weeks ago |
nautil.us | Katherine Harmon Courage
The world’s largest iceberg has been through a lot. Born in 1986, when it broke off from Antarctica, it has since traveled the rough seas of the Drake Passage, got trapped spinning in circles in an ocean gyre, and now seems to be stuck on a shallow shelf just off the coast of South Georgia in the Atlantic Ocean. Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now .
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3 weeks ago |
nautil.us | Katherine Harmon Courage
This spring, storm-chasing scientists will scatter across more than a dozen states to hunt for hail. The falling ice does more than crush newly planted pansies: It pockmarks cars, shreds roofs, cracks solar panels, and crushes agricultural crops, which caused some $35 billion in damages last year in the United States. But predicting where and when these severe storms will land has proven a challenge, and large-scale field study of hailstorms has been largely on ice for decades.
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1 month ago |
nautil.us | Katherine Harmon Courage
Fragments of the storied Halley’s Comet are zinging into Earth’s atmosphere this week in the annual Eta Aquarids meteor shower, which will peak in the early dark of Tuesday morning. Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . The famous comet is still alive and well, of course. But over time, these icy, rocky bodies do break down, shedding bits and pieces of themselves.
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As sea level rises faster in the U.S. Southeast, I wondered: How *can* sea levels rise more in some places than others? @DangendorfSonke explained his new @NatureComms findings for me: https://t.co/3viN3ylo4W Takeaway: The oceans don't behave like a bathtub! In @NautilusMag
A sinkhole is expanding again in one Texas town: https://t.co/PI969nEDfG
Spring is here, the crocuses are emerging from the snow, and @TheWebbyAwards have nominated for best writing @S_Praetorius's incredible story of how the earth is losing its memory. So as the chickadees hop from branch to branch sweetly reminding, do vote https://t.co/U0ClItPpml
