nautil
42h ago
17°
These New Snails Can Slam Shut Their Shells Like Doors
It’s always good to have the option of some peace and quiet
nautil
44h ago
16°
Blood Cells From an 80-Year-Old Transformed into Young Brain Cells
This new technique could be a huge leap forward for age-related brain research
nautil
40h ago
14°
Mere Minutes With AI Causes a Sharp Drop in Persistence
How much cognitive offloading is too much?
nautil
22h ago
8°
Leap Seconds Have Helped Keep Clocks Synchronized with Earth’s Rotation, But Their Time May Be Over
Humans haven’t always counted time down to the second
nautil
16h ago
7°
NASA Shares Image of a Galactic Smiley Face
Nature has blessed us with brains that are hardwired to find patterns and recognize faces, so it’s no surprise we tend to notice faces even where there aren’t any. Although they may be better educated, the humans at NASA are no different than the rest of us. They recently posted an image of a smiley face discovered amongst the stars.
nautil
24h ago
5°
The Key to Multilingualism Lies in the Ears, Not the Mouth
Steve Martin’s favorite comic moment of his entire career is the “hamburger” scene from The Pink Panther (2006), he once told People magazine. Martin plays Inspector Clouseau, who has an aggressively exaggerated French accent. In the scene, he is trying to learn how to say, “I would like to buy a hamburger,” with a dialect coach. “Dam-buergaaaaa,” he purrs at his coach, along with increasingly ridiculous permutations of all of the other words in the sentence.
nautil
20h ago
5°
Check Out the Natural Beauty of the Natural Landscape Photography Awards
What a stunning world we live in
nautil
2h ago
5°
Was Human Language Born Around the Campfire?
Our early human ancestors telling fireside stories may have propelled the development of speech by facilitating discussion of more abstract concepts