More than 800 wildfires are currently active

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This common dieting tip might be a myth

The post Drinking Water With Meals May Make You Eat More, Not Less appeared first on Nautilus.

These weren’t your traditional Disney princesses

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It’s a harrowing tale of deadly winters in Berlin captivity

The post What Became of the Chimps Who Revolutionized Our Understanding of Animal Behavior? appeared first on Nautilus.

A Western diet is bad for us and bad for the planet

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New study shows what happens in our brains as we track multiple conversations

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3-D avatars of macaques fool their flesh-and-blood counterparts—up to point

The post When Monkeys Enter the Uncanny Valley appeared first on Nautilus.

Cat-sized tyrannosaur hatchlings had lots and lots of siblings

The post Small, Cheap, and Full of Teeth: Baby Tyrannosaurs Were Plentiful and Precocious appeared first on Nautilus.

It hijacks a common process present in all cells

The post How This Emerging Tick-borne Virus Escapes Your Immune System appeared first on Nautilus.

People who can’t see images in their minds challenge an old philosophical standby

The post What a Picture of a Dog Has to Do with Reason and Logic appeared first on Nautilus.

With the recent auction of arguably the most famous pen ever used off-Earth, we take a moment to reflect on the evolution of such cosmic utensils

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And now it’s come for the East Coast

The post NASA Satellite Map Shows Stifling Heat Dome Squatting Over the United States appeared first on Nautilus.

It dripped from a tree in China about 385 million years ago

The post This Is the Oldest Amber Ever Found appeared first on Nautilus.

It’s one of only a handful of new monkey species identified on the continent in the last 75 years

The post New, Orange-Lipped Monkey Discovered in Africa appeared first on Nautilus.

The problem isn’t entirely health-related

The post What’s Causing The Rise in Rural Mortality? appeared first on Nautilus.

The record sale of a T. rex skeleton begs the question

The post Do Fossils Belong in Mansions or Museums? appeared first on Nautilus.

The developing brains of boys and girls light up differently when shown a face

The post Can a Preteen’s Reaction to a Face Predict Their Future Social Lives? appeared first on Nautilus.

Today’s T. rex auction could be cause for concern

The post How Dinosaur Skeletons Became So Expensive appeared first on Nautilus.

Inside the brain and aesthetic experience

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And it has a living relative

The post This Prehistoric Giant Salamander Grew to Almost 4 Feet Long  appeared first on Nautilus.