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Hello, Jupiter!

Dec 15, 2023 | nautil.us | Kevin Berger |Tasnuva Elahi

NASA’s mission to explore the origin and evolution of our solar system’s giant is 12 years old and still returning remarkable data and images. This July, the spacecraft Juno completed its 53rd flyby of Jupiter and captured the planet and its moon lo (above), one of Jupiter’s four large “Galilean” moons.
How AI Chatbots Could Help Repair Our Political Conversations

Dec 13, 2023 | nautil.us | Jim Davies |Tasnuva Elahi

Political conversation is the soul of democracy. Evidence suggests it helps us refine our views, concoct solutions to common problems, minimize violent conflict, and get to the voting booth. But as political views become increasingly polarized and hostile in the United States, and as political debate migrates online, many of us are either having aggressively uncivil and unproductive conversations with our political opponents, or avoiding these conversations altogether.
Photographs of The U.S. National Parks Taken During the Pandemic from “A Walk In the Park,” a Book by Andy Katz.

Nov 15, 2023 | nautil.us | Kristen French |Tasnuva Elahi

Join Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. or Join now . Arts While everybody else seemed to be making sourdough bread, 70-year-old photographer Andy Katz hit the road to capture “America’s greatest idea” in a new light. On my first hike through Olympic National Park one evening this past summer, I was so overwhelmed by the primordial textures and deafening hush that I had the urge to lie down on the trail just to collect myself.
These Cells Spark Electricity in the Brain. They’re Not Neurons.

Nov 13, 2023 | nautil.us | Laura Dattaro |Tasnuva Elahi

A brain is nothing if not communicative. Neurons are the chatterboxes of this conversational organ, and they speak with one another by exchanging pulses of electricity using chemical messengers called neurotransmitters. By repeating this process billions of times per second, a brain converts clusters of chemicals into coordinated actions, memories, and thoughts. Researchers study how the brain works by eavesdropping on that chemical conversation.
Think You Know What Somebody Is Thinking?

Oct 26, 2023 | nautil.us | John Horgan |Tasnuva Elahi

Science journalism is really about everything, I like telling my science-journalism students, because science is really about everything. Take The Golden Bowl, the insanely prolix novel by Henry James, which I read as penance after zipping through a Stephen King gore-fest. The Golden Bowl, I’d heard, is a slog compared to thrillers like The Portrait of a Lady and Turn of the Screw, but James called Bowl his “solidest” novel.
Once declared extinct, the world’s largest species of rail, the Takahē, is returning to its former range in New Zealand

Sep 28, 2023 | nautil.us | Krista Langlois |Tasnuva Elahi

When the first Polynesian navigators pulled their canoes onto the shores of Aotearoa/New Zealand in the 13th century, they found a biological wonderland—a kingdom of birds, devoid of land mammals, that had evolved in isolation for millions of years. Tiny kiwis scuttled through the forest understory. Haast’s eagles large enough to carry off a human child swooped from the sky to prey on ostrich-like herbivores called moa that manicured forests with their browsing.
Some Eco-Friendly Drinking Straws Contain Harmful Chemicals.

Sep 12, 2023 | nautil.us | Lina Zeldovich |Tasnuva Elahi

About a year ago, a team of scientists from the University of Antwerp in Belgium, went shopping for drinking straws. They bought a heap of paper and plastic ones. They bought a few made from bamboo. And they also purchased some crafted from glass and stainless steel. In all they collected 39 different brands of straws. But when they came back to the lab, they did not use these straws for sipping or slurping. They destroyed them, reducing them to bits.
Luke Kemp Explains Why Worst-Case Climate Catastrophes Are Critical to Study

Sep 8, 2023 | nautil.us | Katherine Harmon Courage |Tasnuva Elahi

June, July, and August of this year were the hottest on record for planet Earth. This Fourth of July is reported as likely the warmest day on Earth in some 125,000 years. The second-hottest was July 3. In the United States, more than 6,500 local heat records were shattered this summer.
Risky Giant Steps Can Solve Optimization Problems Faster

Sep 5, 2023 | flipboard.com | Tasnuva Elahi

7 hours agoWant to get better at negotiations? An expert in reading facial expressions shares five common ones that will help you become a human lie detector. My clients often refer to me as a human lie detector because I can read microexpressions and see what people are feeling at the exact moment they feel …
The Pandemic Your Grandparents Forgot

Aug 7, 2023 | nautil.us | Steve Keller |Tasnuva Elahi

The symptoms came on without warning. “We had dipped out of the dissecting room at St Thomas’s for a mid-morning break and strolled along the Embankment to Lambeth Bridge,” wrote microbiologist T. H. Pennington of a particular day in medical school. “Going there I felt fine.