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⚡️ AI isn't built to save energy. Perhaps it could be.
Katarina Zimmer takes us through the latest techniques and technologies that researchers are working on to reduce AI's "voracious appetite for energy." #KnowableMagazine #ClimateMastodon
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The Cybathlon is unabashedly "technotopian." ... It is about the fullest possible collaboration of technology and human effort.
✍️ Dana Mackenzie: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/technology/2024/cybathlon-competition-bionic-athletes-use-assistive-tech
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🥵 There's a growing body of research showing that animals get their minds muddled during heat waves.
When it’s hot outside, birds struggle to learn, dogs bite more often, goat-like chamois pick fights. With climate change making heat waves more common, such cognitive impairments across the animal kingdom could ripple through entire ecosystems, putting already fragile species at greater risk. #KnowableMagazine #ScienceMastodon
✍️ Marta Zaraska: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2026/heat-waves-scramble-animal-minds-trigger-aggression
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A worn pair of nurse’s shoes. That coronavirus model Anthony Fauci used in public briefings. Oral histories, iconic photos and social media posts. All of us are curators now, and what we preserve — as well as what we don’t — will write the Covid pandemic story. #KnowableMagazine
✍️ Read this 2021 story by Karen Emslie: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2021/what-will-history-say-about-covid
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🏥 Doctors are saying that 2026 is going to be a particularly bad year for tick bites, and CDC data shows that weekly ER visits for tick bites are already way up.
Why are lyme and other tick-borne diseases on the rise?
✍️ Ula Chrobak: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2022/lyme-other-tickborne-diseases-rise #ScienceMastodon #KnowableMagazine
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Chronic pain affects an estimated 50 million to 100 million Americans, disabling up to 20 million of them. Yet there are few effective drugs to treat chronic pain beyond opioids, which can be dangerous and addictive. What’s the way ahead?
✍️ Stephani Sutherland: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2020/genetic-causes-of-pain
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Glow-in-the-dark materials are already used in some bike lanes, and in the future could be applied to sidewalks, streets and buildings — saving energy and reducing urban heat.
✍️ Kurt Kleiner: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/technology/2021/will-glow-in-the-dark-materials-someday-light-our-cities
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Glow-in-the-dark materials are already used in some bike lanes, and in the future could be applied to sidewalks, streets and buildings — saving energy and reducing urban heat.
✍️ Kurt Kleiner: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/technology/2021/will-glow-in-the-dark-materials-someday-light-our-cities
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Glow-in-the-dark materials are already used in some bike lanes, and in the future could be applied to sidewalks, streets and buildings — saving energy and reducing urban heat.
✍️ Kurt Kleiner: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/technology/2021/will-glow-in-the-dark-materials-someday-light-our-cities
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Glow-in-the-dark materials are already used in some bike lanes, and in the future could be applied to sidewalks, streets and buildings — saving energy and reducing urban heat.
✍️ Kurt Kleiner: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/technology/2021/will-glow-in-the-dark-materials-someday-light-our-cities
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Glow-in-the-dark materials are already used in some bike lanes, and in the future could be applied to sidewalks, streets and buildings — saving energy and reducing urban heat.
✍️ Kurt Kleiner: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/technology/2021/will-glow-in-the-dark-materials-someday-light-our-cities
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🧠 Trust, fear, concern for others and other emotions have their basis in the amygdala. What happens when it stops working? #ScienceMastodon #KnowableMagazine
✍️ Richard Stone: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/mind/2026/genetic-disease-reveals-role-of-brain-amygdala
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🌃 Astronomers and stargazers have long campaigned for a return to darker skies.
Now it’s the turn of ecologists, alarmed by the toll on birds, moths and other insects lured to their deaths; by animals no longer able to navigate; by night foragers afraid to go out at night; and by creatures that use light to communicate but are unable to transmit their messages.
✍️ Stephanie Pain: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2018/there-goes-night
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🌃 Astronomers and stargazers have long campaigned for a return to darker skies.
Now it’s the turn of ecologists, alarmed by the toll on birds, moths and other insects lured to their deaths; by animals no longer able to navigate; by night foragers afraid to go out at night; and by creatures that use light to communicate but are unable to transmit their messages.
✍️ Stephanie Pain: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2018/there-goes-night
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🌃 Astronomers and stargazers have long campaigned for a return to darker skies.
Now it’s the turn of ecologists, alarmed by the toll on birds, moths and other insects lured to their deaths; by animals no longer able to navigate; by night foragers afraid to go out at night; and by creatures that use light to communicate but are unable to transmit their messages.
✍️ Stephanie Pain: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2018/there-goes-night
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🌃 Astronomers and stargazers have long campaigned for a return to darker skies.
Now it’s the turn of ecologists, alarmed by the toll on birds, moths and other insects lured to their deaths; by animals no longer able to navigate; by night foragers afraid to go out at night; and by creatures that use light to communicate but are unable to transmit their messages.
✍️ Stephanie Pain: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2018/there-goes-night
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🌃 Astronomers and stargazers have long campaigned for a return to darker skies.
Now it’s the turn of ecologists, alarmed by the toll on birds, moths and other insects lured to their deaths; by animals no longer able to navigate; by night foragers afraid to go out at night; and by creatures that use light to communicate but are unable to transmit their messages.
✍️ Stephanie Pain: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2018/there-goes-night
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CAR T cell therapy was originally designed to target and wipe out cancer by reprogramming a patient’s immune cells.
Now, researchers are testing this "game changer" treatment on patients with autoimmune diseases like lupus, Graves', and multiple sclerosis. #KnowableMagazine #ScienceMastodon
✍️ Amber Dance: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2026/car-t-cell-therapy-could-treat-autoimmune-diseases
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"The tapestry of life ... means that all living beings are interwoven into a tapestry in which we share evolutionary, ecological and symbolic connections. It sounds poetic, but it’s actually based on the latest scientific evidence. We share genes with other organisms because we all descend from a single primordial organism. There is no biological discontinuity." #ScienceMastodon #KnowableMagazine
- Biologist and ecologist Sandra Díaz
✍️ Valeria Román: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/food-environment/2026/fragile-future-of-biodiversity
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🐦⬛ It's prime-time for spring bird migration in the US! How do they know where to go?
✍️ Sophie Fessl: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2020/earth-birds-take-next-left
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🐦⬛ It's prime-time for spring bird migration in the US! How do they know where to go?
✍️ Sophie Fessl: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2020/earth-birds-take-next-left
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🐦⬛ It's prime-time for spring bird migration in the US! How do they know where to go?
✍️ Sophie Fessl: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2020/earth-birds-take-next-left
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🐦⬛ It's prime-time for spring bird migration in the US! How do they know where to go?
✍️ Sophie Fessl: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2020/earth-birds-take-next-left
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🐦⬛ It's prime-time for spring bird migration in the US! How do they know where to go?
✍️ Sophie Fessl: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2020/earth-birds-take-next-left
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👨 Chip off the old gene block? How Dad's habits get passed down...
✍️ Holly Barker: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2026/epigenetic-effects-of-sperm-on-offspring
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Among the discoveries is a slab of crust that runs from Maine to Georgia and may have formed via volcanic eruptions some 200 million years ago when the supercontinent Pangea broke up. For more on the geology of that eastern stretch of North America, read our recent story. https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/physical-world/2025/how-did-eastern-north-america-form
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🐍 New fossils and modern techniques are updating the story of how our favorite sssslithering reptiles came to be.
✍️ Amber Dance: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2026/evolution-of-snakes
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Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest cancers. By 2030, it’s expected to kill more people in the United States than any cancer except for lung cancer.
Read Amber Dance's piece on the path to curing it: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2025/progress-for-pancreatic-cancer
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🧠 Changes in neural connections due to substance use and withdrawal are long-lasting, and craving can peak well into abstinence. Understanding this process could inspire drugs to support recovery.
✍️ Emma Yasinski: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/mind/2026/what-addiction-does-to-synapses-in-brain
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🍜 When it comes to comfort food, the psychological connection may matter more than the food itself.
Recent research suggests that while the mood-boosting effects of comfort food are genuine, it may not be only the act of eating that provides them. Just thinking about your culinary source of comfort could evoke similarly warm, nostalgic feelings.
✍️ Debbie Koenig: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/food-environment/2026/why-we-crave-comfort-food
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Such customized vaccines, which are engineered to match a person’s specific cancer mutations, are one in a handful of new strategies targeting this difficult-to-treat cancer; learn more from our recent story.
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2025/progress-for-pancreatic-cancer -
Even in an ordinary pregnancy, the journey that sperm must take to reach the egg is stunningly complicated; learn more from our 2025 comic.
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2025/how-sperm-navigate-the-path-to-fertilization-of-egg -
The goal of in vitro fertilization is a healthy baby. But a lot has to go right along the way, from complex medical procedures to mundane management of medications and paperwork.
At the Pudding, Lam Thuy Vo tells her IVF story via an illustrated interactive: https://pudding.cool/2026/03/ivf/
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What’s the secret to a great cup of tea?
From where the Camellia sinensis bush is grown to whether the leaves are withered or fermented, much can influence the popular drink’s molecular and flavor profile 🍵
✍️ Amber Dance: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/food-environment/2026/tea-compounds-flavors-affected-by-processing-growing
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Better outcomes may come from new drugs, strategies to rev up the immune system and learning to identify the disease sooner in its course — here's how scientists are making progress fighting pancreatic cancer 👇
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2025/progress-for-pancreatic-cancer
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Adult children vs. parents, siblings vs. siblings — calling quits on one’s kin seems increasingly common.
As more adults cut off their parents, a researcher calls for closer scrutiny of causes and effects, and suggests paths to reconciliation.
✍️ Katherine Ellison
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/mind/2026/causes-of-family-estrangement -
Scientists are trying to name the qualities that make someone wise and figure out how to cultivate them. ✍️ Emily Laber-Warren
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/mind/2026/what-is-wisdom-can-it-be-taught
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Keeping global warming to manageable levels will require removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it somewhere else. The world’s oceans may be a promising option.
✍️ Sandy Ong
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A growing body of research suggests that our closest known relatives, the Neanderthals, had brains to go with their brawn 🧠 💪
The latest finding: Neanderthals may have used birch tar as an antibiotic salve.
✍️ Laura Baisas reports at Popular Science: https://www.popsci.com/health/neanderthals-antibiotic-birch-tar-medicine/
For more evidence of Neanderthal creativity, read our 2023 story.
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2023/new-finds-about-neanderthal-brains-and-behavior -
Once considered cellular junk, non-coding RNAs are emerging as key players in everything from brain development to cancer — with much still to be discovered.
✍️ Christina Szalinski
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2026/noncoding-rna-molecules-in-cells
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Ultracold gases in the lab could help scientists to better understand the universe. ✍️ Katie McCormick
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Nets equipped with water bottles and other tricks can help save some species, while allowing fisherman to still catch others.
✍️ Gennaro Tomma
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Built from thickets of glucose, galactose, mannose and more, the glycome plays key roles in cell communication, immunity and the blood-brain barrier.
✍️ Esther Landhuis
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2026/role-of-glycome-biology
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For particle physicists working with neutrinos, almost nothing is everything
Several massive multimillion dollar experiments should soon reveal more about the nature of these ghostly particles.
✍️ Nicola Jones
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Renewable technologies need a multitude of critical minerals. The seabed could supply these riches. But at what cost?
✍️ Natasha Gilbert
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The 'sweet spot' of overconfidence — project a bit to be perceived as competent, but don't be 'too seduced,' a cognitive neuroscientist explains in a Q&A.
📝 Learn more about this in our recent article republished by Live Science.
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#Podcast 🎧🎙️ Sloppy by today’s standards, and maybe even back when it was published in 1955, Henry Beecher’s paper paved the way for sounder drug trials and pushed scientists to better understand how we process pain.
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/mind/2023/how-placebo-effect-went-mainstream
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The curious case of low-protein diets
Bread, grains, fruits, and vegetables arranged in a circular pattern around a shrimp at the center. – Knowable Magazine The curious case of low-protein diets Protein dominates th…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Nutrition #ChristopherMorrison #KnowableMagazine #labanimals #nutrition #proteincookies #proteinintake #proteinrestriction #Proteinwater #restrictivediets #StuartPhillips
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2566497/the-curious-case-of-low-protein-diets/ -
The curious case of low-protein diets
Bread, grains, fruits, and vegetables arranged in a circular pattern around a shrimp at the center. – Knowable Magazine The curious case of low-protein diets Protein dominates th…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Nutrition #ChristopherMorrison #KnowableMagazine #labanimals #nutrition #proteincookies #proteinintake #proteinrestriction #Proteinwater #restrictivediets #StuartPhillips
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2566497/the-curious-case-of-low-protein-diets/ -
The curious case of low-protein diets
Bread, grains, fruits, and vegetables arranged in a circular pattern around a shrimp at the center. – Knowable Magazine The curious case of low-protein diets Protein dominates th…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Nutrition #ChristopherMorrison #KnowableMagazine #labanimals #nutrition #proteincookies #proteinintake #proteinrestriction #Proteinwater #restrictivediets #StuartPhillips
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2566497/the-curious-case-of-low-protein-diets/