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The Nautilus Winter Reading List 2025

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Does Your Personality Put You At a Higher Risk of Dying?

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Wildfires reshape forest soils for decades, with recovery varying by climate

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A molecular gatekeeper that controls protein synthesis

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New 'cloaking device' concept shields electronics from disruptive magnetic fields

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Ant societies rose by trading individual protection for collective power—the evolution of 'squishability'

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How mountain building and climate change have shaped alpine biodiversity over 30 million years

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How ancient viral DNA shapes early embryonic development

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These Fatal Gauntlets Kill Thousands of Endangered Seabirds Every Year

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Why many Americans avoid negotiating, even when it costs them

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Four years after the Mariana mining disaster in Brazil, river fish remained contaminated

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Potentially toxic elements in bananas grown in the Mariana disaster region exceed United Nations limits

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Targeting bacterial 'decision-making' could help outsmart antibiotic resistance

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Helping people and limiting damage: Researchers identify technology needs for disaster response

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Expansion of invasive Chinese hwamei into alpine habitats in Japan: First record of songs

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Eifel volcanoes mapped in detail: Surprising new insights from Germany's largest seismological experiment

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Pressing pause: A small genetic stop may have helped complex life evolve

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Engineered enzyme turns formaldehyde pollutant into key pharmaceutical building block

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Statistical method developed for single-molecule fluorescence analysis

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Phage-resistant bacteria can still sink carbon to ocean floor

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Electricity-driven nitrogen insertion enables sustainable heterocycle synthesis

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Offshore Wind Farm in China Becomes a Haven for Oysters, Barnacles, and More, Study Finds

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Webb captures dwarf stars in a glittering sky

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Real-time social interactions reveal how we balance cooperation and competition

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Merging nanopores with nanofluidic devices could transform medicine and diagnostics

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Uncovering how parasitic plants avoid attacking themselves to improve crop protection

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Discovery of the most intron-rich eukaryotic genome

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These Baby Stars Have Mysterious Companions

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An asteroid could hit the moon in 2032, scattering debris toward Earth

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Westerly jet stream emerges as key driver of mid-latitude hydroclimatic extremes

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Precessing magnetic jet engine model reveals power source of rare 'heartbeat' gamma-ray burst

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Nanoparticle vaccine strategy could protect against Ebola and other deadly filoviruses

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Exploring the connection between gene expression and aging

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Laser-engineered nanowire networks could unlock new material manufacturing

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CO₂-driven method rapidly creates complex nanomaterials at room temperature

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Should I pour this down the sink? (Probably not, and here's why)

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The 98% mystery: Scientists just cracked the code on “junk DNA” linked to Alzheimer’s

The levers for a sustainable food system to combat global warming

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An 11-year-old needed two new organs and doctors made history

Long-standing puzzle of the Sadovskii vortex pair solved after nearly a half-century

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Measuring how materials hotter than the sun's surface conduct electricity

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Nature's pest controllers: Wasps keep whiteflies in check as resistance proves costly for survivors

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Q&A: Environmental protection benefits the American economy and public health

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Helping others for a few hours a week may slow brain aging

He made beer that’s also a vaccine. Now controversy is brewing

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Nodding off is dangerous. Some animals have evolved extreme ways to sleep in precarious environments

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Putting data centres in space isn't going to happen any time soon

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Football-field-sized balloon takes flight over Antarctica in quest for dark matter answers

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Space station research supports new FDA-approved cancer therapy

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Machine learning and microscopy solve 170-year-old mystery of premelting ice

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