One might wonder how a single psilocybin trip could compare to the catalog of rich transcendent experiences that might accumulate over a lifetime of religious devotion. Now, nearly a decade later, the results of this controversial experiment have come to light. Some of these clergy have become evangelists for psychedelics, incorporating them into their own religious teachings. For some of them, the experience led to a release from attachment to dogmas and greater openness to other forms of relig
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One might wonder how a single psilocybin trip could compare to the catalog of rich transcendent experiences that might accumulate over a lifetime of religious devotion. Now, nearly a decade later, the results of this controversial experiment have come to light. Some of these clergy have become evangelists for psychedelics, incorporating them into their own religious teachings. For some of them, the experience led to a release from attachment to dogmas and greater openness to other forms of relig
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Unlock the secrets of the universe! Get ready to explore the uncharted territories where science, art & philosophy collide. Dive into the Nautilus Newsletter and discover new ideas that will blow your mind! Subscribe now | Nautilus Magazine
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Icelandic horses are renowned for their unique gaits, which set them apart from other breeds. Beyond the standard walk, trot, canter, and gallop, they possess the ability to tölt—a smooth, four-beat gait—and perform the flying pace, or skeið, a high-speed lateral gait used in racing. These distinctive movements have long fascinated breeders and scientists alike, and recent genetic research is shedding new light on what enables these horses to move the way they do. A groundbreaking study led by r
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Icelandic horses are renowned for their unique gaits, which set them apart from other breeds. Beyond the standard walk, trot, canter, and gallop, they possess the ability to tölt—a smooth, four-beat gait—and perform the flying pace, or skeið, a high-speed lateral gait used in racing. These distinctive movements have long fascinated breeders and scientists alike, and recent genetic research is shedding new light on what enables these horses to move the way they do. A groundbreaking study led by r
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Nautilus was created by scientists, philosophers, and artists. The writing style explains complex ideas and groundbreaking science the way your favorite teachers would, and the stories are accompanied by original works of art. | Nautilus Magazine
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For decades, forests were understood from the surface up: trunks, canopies, scattered roots. What lay beneath—fungi, roots, and their dense entanglements—barely registered. In a conversation with forest ecologist Suzanne Simard, Nautilus explores how that picture has changed. Over the past 20 years, Simard’s work on mycorrhizae—the symbiotic partnerships between fungi and roots—has shown that trees are connected not only to soil, but to one another. Carbon, nutrients, and water move through fung
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For decades, forests were understood from the surface up: trunks, canopies, scattered roots. What lay beneath—fungi, roots, and their dense entanglements—barely registered. In a conversation with forest ecologist Suzanne Simard, Nautilus explores how that picture has changed. Over the past 20 years, Simard’s work on mycorrhizae—the symbiotic partnerships between fungi and roots—has shown that trees are connected not only to soil, but to one another. Carbon, nutrients, and water move through fung
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Icelandic horses are renowned for their unique gaits, which set them apart from other breeds. Beyond the standard walk, trot, canter, and gallop, they possess the ability to tölt—a smooth, four-beat gait—and perform the flying pace, or skeið, a high-speed lateral gait used in racing. These distinctive movements have long fascinated breeders and scientists alike, and recent genetic research is shedding new light on what enables these horses to move the way they do. A groundbreaking study led by r
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Icelandic horses are renowned for their unique gaits, which set them apart from other breeds. Beyond the standard walk, trot, canter, and gallop, they possess the ability to tölt—a smooth, four-beat gait—and perform the flying pace, or skeið, a high-speed lateral gait used in racing. These distinctive movements have long fascinated breeders and scientists alike, and recent genetic research is shedding new light on what enables these horses to move the way they do. A groundbreaking study led by r
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From designing phone cameras to detecting diseases, Advanced Science Research Center at The Graduate Center, CUNY researcher Enrico’s work has all kinds of applications in our world. | Nautilus Magazine
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A group of ants beat humans at problem-solving
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This newsletter is read by researchers at NASA, Harvard, and CERN but the stories are written in a way that everyone can understand. | Nautilus Magazine
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Researchers pitted the collective problem-solving skills of humans against a cadre of Paratrechina longicornis—better known as longhorn crazy ants. To do so, they set both species loose to solve a puzzling problem involving shoving an awkward shape through a simple maze. It would require cooperation, stamina, trial-and-error—and perhaps even a bit of sacrificing one’s ego to the greater cause. As it turns out, ants are pretty smart when you get them together. When they join forces, as they did i
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Icelandic horses are renowned for their unique gaits, which set them apart from other breeds. Beyond the standard walk, trot, canter, and gallop, they possess the ability to tölt—a smooth, four-beat gait—and perform the flying pace, or skeið, a high-speed lateral gait used in racing. These distinctive movements have long fascinated breeders and scientists alike, and recent genetic research is shedding new light on what enables these horses to move the way they do. A groundbreaking study led by r
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Nautilus was created by scientists, philosophers, and artists. The writing style explains complex ideas and groundbreaking science the way your favorite teachers would, and the stories are accompanied by original works of art. | Nautilus Magazine
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In a modest rectangular enclosure surrounded by sparse green shrubbery, just past the main gate of San Diego Zoo Safari Park, a middle-aged hyacinth macaw blasts Daft Punk on his bespoke boombox. His name is Sampson and he likes to dance. Sampson can operate the boombox, aptly named JoyBranch, by biting or holding on to a kind of joystick made to look like a slice of log with a twig protruding from it. Motion sensorskeep the music going as long as he bobs and nods, dipping his head in rhythm. An
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Sharks are intelligent social creatures, and vital partners in the Earth’s ecosystem. But this is a relatively new discovery. In the 1970s, the movie 'Jaws' made a generation absolutely terrified of sharks. Enter Donald Nelson, a trailblazing biologist who spent his life undoing the damage that 'Jaws' did to the perception of sharks by researching shark behavior up close for the first time. Over 30 years, Nelson’s lab produced almost 50 publications about shark behavior. In study after study, Ne
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In tomorrow’s Nautilus newsletter: A rising tide of research suggests that better, more stimulating environments for captive fish could improve scientific research and commercial yields as well as the lives of the fish themselves. Subscribe to the free newsletter for access to this story. Link in bio. | Nautilus Magazine
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Researchers are divided over AI’s cognitive harms—and whether we should use these tools at all Full story: https://nautil.us/ai-might-not-harm-us-in-the-way-you-think-1248498/ | Nautilus Magazine
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Why did intelligent life emerge so late in Earth’s history? Philip Ball examines a long-standing scientific idea that human-level intelligence required a series of rare evolutionary steps, and explores new research questioning whether those steps were truly unlikely—or instead shaped by the slow coevolution of life and Earth’s environment. https://nautil.us/we-might-not-be-so-strange-1242875/ | Nautilus Magazine
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Ask a male sea turtle if too many females is a problem and he'd probably say no. But ask an ecologist and they'd say absolutely. We know the temperature of the sand incubating a sea turtle’s egg will determine the hatchling’s sex. The problem: warmer sands are exclusively producing female turtles. And because sea turtles reach sexual maturity much later in life, the unbalanced ratio of females to males we see today was a product of the environment decades ago. Scientists are now in a race agains
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Some frogs are clumsier than others. Enter the pumpkin toadlet, captured here by amphibian disease ecologist Shannon Buttimer. This tiny frog has the smallest ear canals recorded in any vertebrate, and since the inner ear is typically responsible for regulating balance, they can't reorient themselves quickly enough to stick the landing. These frogs make it work, though. They use jumping as a defense mechanism, and focus on distance over grace. Their color allows them to match leaf debris, and up
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