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The Unnatural History of Bird Flu - Nautilus Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience Log in or Join now In 2021, H5N1 reached North America, setting off a viral blaze in poultry—more than 150 million chickens and turkeys have been killed to date, either by the virus or in efforts to curb its spread—and infecting both wild birds and mammals at unprecedented rates
Finding Peter Putnam - Nautilus Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience Log in or Join now Wheeler, who made key contributions to nuclear physics, general relativity, and quantum gravity, had thought more about the observer’s role in the universe than anyone—if there was a clue to that mystery anywhere, I was convinced it was somewhere in his papers
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In Search of the First Animals - Nautilus Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience Log in or Join now Scientists have long believed the Little Dal reefs were built entirely by microbes—mats of cyanobacteria that grew upward into mounds That’s how reefs were built for almost 2 billion years, long before animals began to populate the planet
The Animals That Exist Between Life and Death - Nautilus Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience Log in or Join now But there was a wrinkle: Rotifers didn’t seem to use the trehalose trick Researchers working in the mid-2000s discovered that instead of relying on sugars to form a protective matrix in their cells, these animals produce proteins to replace the water in their cells
Scent Makes a Place - Nautilus Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience Log in or Join now We’ve also numbed our noses into oblivion, dulling our most primal sense with the overwhelming presence of synthetic musks and so-called “clean” compounds, used to scent everything from candies to detergents
Discovering the First Intersex Southern Right Whale - Nautilus Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience Log in or Join now Decades earlier, in 1989, researchers had used special crossbows to collect small skin samples from 10 southern right whales in their calving grounds off Argentina’s Valdés Peninsula, as part of an effort to assess the species’ genetic diversity