''Nautilus'' is an American popular science magazine featuring journalism, essays, graphic narratives, fiction, and criticism. It covers most areas of science, and related topics in philosophy, technology, and history. ''Nautilus'' is published six times annually, with some of the print issues focusing on a selected theme, which also appear on its website. Issue themes have included human uniqueness, time, uncertainty, genius, mergers & acquisitions, creativity, consciousness, and reality, among many others.
Reception
In ''Nautilus'' launch year (2013), it was cited as one of ''
Library Journal
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's'' Ten Best New Magazines Launched; was named one of the World's Best-Designed news sites by the
Society for News Design
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; received an honorary mention as one of RealClearScience's top science news sites; and received three awards from FOLIO: magazine, including Best Consumer Website and Best Full Issue.
In 2014, the magazine won a
Webby Award
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for best science website and was nominated for two others; had two stories selected to be included in 2014 edition of
The Best American Science and Nature Writing; won a FOLIO award for Best Standalone Digital Consumer Magazine; and was nominated for two Webby Awards.
In 2015, ''Nautilus'' won two
National Magazine Awards
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(aka "Ellies"), for General Excellence (Literature, Science and Politics Magazines) and Best Website. It is the only magazine in the history of the award to have won multiple Ellies in its first year of eligibility. It also had one story included in the 2015 edition of The Best American Science and Nature Writing, and another story won a AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award. RealClearScience again named it a top-10 science website.
In 2016, ''Nautilus'' had one story included in the 2016 edition of The Best American Science and Nature Writing; won an American Society of Magazine Editor's Award for Best Style and Design of a cover; and was nominated for a Webby Award.
In 2017, ''Nautilus'' had three stories selected for inclusion in the 2017 edition of The Best American Science and Nature Writing; one piece won a AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award; another piece won a Solar Physics Division Popular Media Award from the American Astronomical Society; and was a Webby Award Nominee for Best Editorial Writing.
More than a dozen ''Nautilus'' illustrations have been recognized by American Illustration, Spectrum, and the Society of Illustrators.
Contributors
Since the magazine's launch in April 2013, contributors have included scientists
Peter Douglas Ward,
Caleb Scharf,
Gary Marcus
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Marcus is professor ''emeritus'' of ps ...
,
Robert Sapolsky
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,
David Deutsch
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,
Lisa Kaltenegger,
Sabine Hossenfelder,
Steven Pinker
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,
Jim Davies,
Laura Mersini-Houghton,
Ian Tattersall
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,
Max Tegmark
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,
Julian Barbour
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Since receiving his PhD degree on the foundations of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity at the University o ...
,
Stephen Hsu,