Nautilus
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A science and culture magazine organized around themes, publishing interconnected articles across biology, physics, psychology, and philosophy each issue.
Why it is useful
The thematic structure — each issue explores a single concept from multiple disciplinary angles — produces a kind of coherence that general science magazines rarely achieve. The writing quality is consistently high, and the stories regularly connect scientific findings to broader philosophical or cultural questions. Free to read with no paywall on most content.