Katherine Harmon Courage

1 week ago | nautil.us | Katherine Harmon Courage

ADVERTISEMENT Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. or Join now . Zoology Welcome to the Animal Issue Sign up for the free Nautilus newsletter: Do you remember the first time, as a kid, you stood beneath a looming dinosaur skeleton at a museum? The moment of awe, maybe a tingle of fear. Of realizing that you could have—but for a gap of 65 million years or so—been lunch. Or at least just another mammal squashed underfoot.

Dec 9, 2024 | nautil.us | Katherine Harmon Courage

In this issue of Nautilus, we bring you a new understanding of kinship—and how it can unite us, ocean waves, and even distant stars. Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . In the rainforests of Papua New Guinea, the Mali tribe has long practiced a valuable skill: building huge families. These aren’t genealogies created through blood and marriage, mapped out into discrete trees.

Aug 21, 2024 | nautil.us | Katherine Harmon Courage

For some people, it arrives with a car crash. Others an assault or a medical diagnosis. Still others with a drug dose or a period of sustained stress. Suddenly a veil unfurls, and the world around them seems unreal. The same furniture is in the living room. The same trees are outside turning shades of gold in the sun. But it’s all not quite … right. Even one’s hand doesn’t seem like their own. Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now .

Jul 26, 2024 | nautil.us | Katherine Harmon Courage

Mysteries around Jupiter’s Great Red Spot have been swirling for centuries. No one is sure when the tremendous whirl—the largest and longest-lived storm in our current solar system, with a diameter wider than planet Earth and wind speeds of more than 260 miles per hour—began. Or why it’s red. Or even who first observed it (was it a 17th-century Italian or Briton—or a 19th-century German or American?). Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now .

Apr 7, 2024 | scientificamerican.com | Katherine Harmon Courage

In downtown New York, mysterious deliveries of heavy equipment were arriving at the Devlin & Co. clothing store on Warren Street and Broadway. In the middle of the night, metal rods would periodically poke up through the roadbed from somewhere below. A grand and secret project was underway, which its mastermind thought would revolutionize urban life. Horse-drawn cart traffic was choking the city, which in 1869 housed nearly a million people.