Big news! This past Monday, Nautilus won two National Magazine Awards—for General Excellence in the category of Science, Literature, and Politics, and for our website.
The National Magazine Awards are considered the highest honor in the magazine industry, and Nautilus is the first magazine ever to win two in its first year of eligibility.
We couldn't have done this without our loyal readers. Thank you so very much.
Now, here are three of the many articles that helped us win.
 1. Super-Intelligent Humans Are ComingGenetic engineering will one day create the smartest humans who have ever lived.
By Stephen Hsu
Lev Landau, a Nobelist and one of the fathers of a great school of Soviet physics, had a logarithmic scale for ranking theorists, from 1 to 5. A physicist in the first class had ten times the impact of someone in the second class, and so on. He modestly ranked himself as 2.5 until late in life, when he became a 2. In the first class were Heisenberg, Bohr, and Dirac among a few others. Einstein was a 0.5!
2. The Unique Merger That Made You (and Ewe, and Yew)All sophisticated life on the planet Earth may owe its existence to one freakish event.
By Ed Yong
At first glance, a tree could not be more different from the caterpillars that eat its leaves, the mushrooms sprouting from its bark, the grass growing by its trunk, or the humans canoodling under its shade. Appearances, however, can be deceiving. Zoom in closely, and you will see that these organisms are all surprisingly similar at a microscopic level. Specifically, they all consist of cells that share the same basic architecture.
3. Dude, Where’s My Frontal Cortex?There’s a method to the madness of the teenage brain.
By Robert Sapolsky
In the foothills of the Sierra Mountains, a few hours east of San Francisco, are the Moaning Caverns, a cave system that begins, after a narrow, twisting descent of 30-some feet, with an abrupt 180-foot drop. The Park Service has found ancient human skeletons at the bottom of the drop. Native Americans living there at the time didn’t make human sacrifices. Instead, these explorers took one step too far in the gloom. The skeletons belonged to adolescents.
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