Why We Can’t Rule Out Bigfoot

[[newsletter20_header.png] August 25, 2019]( Dear Nautilus Reader, Why is it so hard to prove there’s no such thing as bigfoot? That and more, in some of the most popular stories this week on Nautilus. Best, The Nautilus Team info@nautil.us [16077_55aef34e0d62637c23ad60186310cd4d.png]( [3883_51f3eb940fd73a19119534c063967bff.png]( [Why We Can’t Rule Out Bigfoot By Carl Zimmer I recently got an email from an anthropologist commenting on a new report in the Proceedings of the Royal Society. The topic of that report was Bigfoot—or rather, a genetic analysis of hairs that people over the years have claimed belong to a giant, hairy, unidentified primate.]( [4953_4ae1e2b07ecf6c799b91ed45e95278b8.png]( [Six Pictures of Paradise By Nigel Pitman For many years I ran a field station in Amazonian Peru. The station was a five-hour canoe ride from the nearest road, and every Friday our boat made the long trip upriver carrying crates of groceries, drums of gas for the generator, a mountain of scuffed-up backpacks and duffel bags, and the latest crop of scientists.]( [16334_78229647b82d30c5a193e6b01b2306f5.png]( From Quanta Abstractions Channel[Can New Species Evolve From Cancers? Maybe. Here’s How. By Christie Wilcox Aggressive cancers can spread so fiercely that they seem less like tissues gone wrong and more like invasive parasites looking to consume and then break free of their host.]( [561_58ae749f25eded36f486bc85feb3f0ab.png]( From Women in Science & Engineering Channel[Buried in the Sky By Kelly Clancy Our group of astronomers took in the naked mountains by the sea. We had flown into the La Serena airport at noon, and found a parched landscape.](  [16102_6ca4e9af5ea662a095c3243dc591bf54.png]( [Your Support Matters NAUTILUS PRIME Support science journalism by becoming a member of Nautilus Prime. Gain access to unlimited content on Nautilus, and more!](  [16319_ce2ad0ac96ac2002d1120b0c907b22dc.png]( [The Great Silence By Ted Chiang The humans use Arecibo to look for extraterrestrial intelligence. Their desire to make a connection is so strong that they’ve created an ear capable of hearing across the universe.]( [6506_6a711a119a8a7a9f877b5f379bfe9ea2.png]( From Earth Channel[The Beckoning of the Ice Worlds By Corey S. Powell I have seen the future of space exploration, and it looks like a cue ball covered with brown scribbles.]( [14258_c379a1046f90b893557efbd459480ae5.png]( From Poetry In Science Channel[Meet Harvard’s Own Poet-Physician By Michael Segal Rafael Campo speaks Nautilus’ language. A professor at Harvard Medical school and Lesley University, and a practicing physician, he has also published a-half dozen volumes of poetry and won a Guggenheim fellowship for his work.](  [nwms_fb.png]( [nwms_twt.png]( [nwms_ing.png]( NautilusThink, Inc. 233 Broadway Suite 720New York, NY 10279 [Add us to your address book]( Copyright © 2019 NautilusThink, Inc., All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in at our website. [unsubscribe from this list](   [update subscription preferences](