The Man Who Drank Cholera and Launched the Yogurt Craze

[View this email in your browser]( May 30, 2021 Dear Nautilus Reader, This week, we'll explain why you should thank 19th-century Russian scientist Ilya Metchnikoff the next time you buy probiotic yogurt at your corner store. That story, an inspiring student film about our effects on the world around us; how research on mouse hepatitis helped us create a COVID-19 vaccine so quickly; and more, in some of the most popular stories on Nautilus this week. [The Man Who Drank Cholera and Launched the Yogurt Craze]( [By Lina Zeldovich]( [When Ilya Metchnikoff was 8 and running around on his parents’ Panassovka estate in Little Russia, now Ukraine, he was making notes on the local flora like a junior botanist.]( [Spark of Science Channel]( [How to Take Back the Power to Change the World]( [By Mary Ellen Hannibal]( [The Grand Prize winner of the Redford Center challenge begins with a stone’s throw.]( Nautilus Partner Seabirds are an incredibly versatile group of animals—they roam freely on land, soar majestically through the air, and are equally at home underwater. They’re critically important if we are to maintain a healthy ocean, but half of all seabird populations are declining, and one in three is threatened with global extinction. In [this episode of Ocean Matters](, physicist and oceanographer Helen Czerski explores the vital link between seabirds and the sea, discovers how can seabirds help the ocean recover, and crucially, how can we help the seabirds. [The English Professor Who Foresaw Modern Neuroscience]( [By Christopher Comer & Ashley Taggart]( [In the 21st century, neuroscience has been able to extend our understanding of the brain beyond brain anatomy to an increasingly functional view of cognition.]( [Science Philanthropy Alliance Channel]( [The Arcane Research That Prepared Us for COVID-19]( [By Mitch Leslie]( [Most people have never heard of the mouse hepatitis virus (MHV). It’s not the kind of virus that makes the headlines.]( Join a community of curious readers exploring scientific subjects in profound, unexpected ways. [Become a Nautilus Member]( [Quanta Abstractions Channel]( [Squishy Neutron Star Setback Dampens Hopes of Exotic Matter]( [By Jonathan O'Callaghan]( [In the known universe, there is nothing quite like a neutron star.]( [The Unusual Language That Linguists Thought Couldn’t Exist]( [By Julie Sedivy]( [Languages, like human bodies, come in a variety of shapes—but only to a point.]( [Facebook]( [Instagram]( [Twitter]( [Website]( Copyright © 2021 NautilusNext, All rights reserved. You were subscribed to the newsletter from [nautil.us]( Our mailing address is: NautilusNext 360 W 36th Street, 7S, New York, NY 10018 [Add us to your address book]( Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](.