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Earth's Asteroid Defense Plan | Nautilus Narrations with Sunshine Nate
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Good science writing teaches you. Great science writing touches you. Nautilus is only interested in the great stuff. Listen to science stories that will spark your curiosity and stir your soul, read by some very interesting people.
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- Earth's Asteroid Defense Plan | Nautilus Narrations with Sunshine Nate · 31 minFor decades, scientists, engineers, and others in the planetary defense community have been theorizing on ways to interrupt the journey of an Earth-bound asteroid. In this…
- A Wild Idea to Protect the Great Barrier Reef | Nautilus Narrations with Summer Collins · 13 minFollowing devastating heat waves in 2016 and 2017 that caused intense bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef, it was impossible to ignore the existential vulnerability of coral in a…
- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Uncertainty | Nautilus Narrations with Paul M. Sutter · 22 min"Quantum mechanics is confusing, nonintuitive, and seemingly nonsensical. What I found through my journey is that this confusion and senselessness isn’t a bug, but a feature, and…
- Friendship is a Lifesaver | Nautilus Narrations with Kai · 15 minScience has been accumulating evidence that friendship isn’t just critical for our happiness, but also our health and longevity. Friendship is also particularly important to…
- The Future of Food Looks Small, Dense, and Very Bushy | Nautilus Narrations with Tinger Hseih · 6 minThe way we live is out of balance with the way we eat. Urbanization and population growth will require more farmland, more transportation, and an even bigger ecological…
- We'll Miss the Vulture | Nautilus Narrations with Liz Clayton Fuller · 12 minThroughout history, vultures have been burdened with an image evoking notions of death, greed, and moral emptiness. Yet, scientists argue that these misunderstood birds are far…
- What Makes Music Universal? | Nautilus Narrations with Emperor X · 27 minThe debate over whether music is universal has intensified, with scholars from various fields weighing in on the idea that all music shares fundamental traits. Some…
- The First Good Glimpse of the Earth’s Mantle | Nautilus Narrations with Cate Larsen · 9 minA team of engineers and scientists recently accomplished an astonishing feat: they drilled into the Earth's mantle, retrieving a core sample nearly a mile long.Watch Cate Larsen…
- What Should We Do With an Old Sea Shanty? | Nautilus Narrations with Heaven Schmitt of Grumpy · 16 minWhat is a sea shanty? Where did they come from? Why do they still matter? Watch Grumpy frontperson Heaven Schmitt explore the complicated legacy of sea shanties in this episode…
- The Great Forgetting | Nautilus Narrations with Dr. Tim Johnson · 26 minHow does a billion years of Earth’s history go missing? Our latest episode of Nautilus Narrations featuring American history educator and content creator, Dr. Tim Johnson…
- Why We Sense Somebody Who Isn’t There | Nautilus Narrations with Ryan Bergara · 10 minHave you ever felt the presence of another person, but nobody is there? Cognitive scientists are on a quest to explain this bizarre phenomenon, and who better to dive into the…
- Why Is Everything an Orchid? | Nautilus Narrations with Joey Santore · 14 minCharles Darwin called orchids an "abominable mystery," fascinated by their odd shape and wild variety. To this day, there are over 28,000 varieties, with more cropping up every…
- Can Cryopreservation Save Coral Reefs? | Nautilus Narrations with Stranger Cat · 13 minCan cryogenically freezing coral stop time long enough to save them? Listen to musician, producer, and coral reef activist Stranger Cat explore how scientists are refining ways…
- How a Total Eclipse Alters Your Psyche | Nautilus Narrations with Pooja Prabakaran of Koyal · 5 minWhy are humans so awed by an eclipse, that seemingly rare, brief dip of the daytime sun behind the moon? Listen to Pooja Prabakaran, lead vocalist of the indie pop-rock trio…
- How To Predict Extreme Weather | Nautilus Narrations with Photay · 14 minCan advancements in machine learning predict natural disasters before it's too late? Early signs are positive, and Photay's latest album 'Windswept' explores similar natural…
- Why Eels Don't Have Sex Until the Last Year of Their Life – Narrated by Being Dead · 11 minThe lives of Eels are full of mystery, and like its animal namesake suggests, each song on Being Dead's new album EELS feels like uncovering a new cavern, plunging into depths…
- The Tiny Ant and the Mighty Lion, narrated by Lisa Schonberg · 5 minDrummer, composer, and bioacoustic artist Lisa Schonberg knows the hidden power of ants. Through her project Amplifying the Tropical Ants (ATTA), Schonberg recorded the tiny…
- Is AI Art Really Art - narrated by Gep Repasky · 6 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 18“There’s definitely a lot of mental breakdowns at the studio if I’m being so real,” Lunar Vacation singer Gep Repasky said in a recent interview about the emotional toll creating…
- The Remarkable Emptiness of Existence - narrated by Cassandra Jenkins · 8 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 17When you hear about “the vacuum of space” it’s tempting to imagine an infinite void of nothingness, but according to astrophysicist Paul M. Sutter, the vacuum of spacetime “is an…
- Seeing Through Animal Eyes - narrated by Jasamine White-Gluz of No Joy · 4 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 16The shoegaze genre is famous for its distortion, passing the sounds an electric guitar makes through filters to transform them into something new. Biologist Daniel Hanley does…
