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🫘 We asked the experts, and yes, we should all be fibermaxxing.
✍️ Claudia Steiner: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2026/fiber-feeds-the-microbiome-and-improves-health
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🫘 We asked the experts, and yes, we should all be fibermaxxing.
✍️ Claudia Steiner: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2026/fiber-feeds-the-microbiome-and-improves-health
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🍫 Hungry for some new bites of chocolate science? Take a look at our latest, by Georgia Michelman: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/food-environment/2026/how-scientists-are-perfecting-chocolate
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🍫 Hungry for some new bites of chocolate science? Take a look at our latest, by Georgia Michelman: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/food-environment/2026/how-scientists-are-perfecting-chocolate
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🐆 Saving Nepal's leopards — and their human neighbors.
Conflicts with people are growing as expanded forest land and climate change push the creatures into human settlements. There are solutions to try.
✍️ Saugat Bolakhe: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2026/living-with-leopards-in-nepal
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🐆 Saving Nepal's leopards — and their human neighbors.
Conflicts with people are growing as expanded forest land and climate change push the creatures into human settlements. There are solutions to try.
✍️ Saugat Bolakhe: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2026/living-with-leopards-in-nepal
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"In so many ways, we saunter through our built environments with our electric lights and think it’s going to be fine,” visual neuroscientist David Berson says.
“But we’re making ourselves sick."
✍️ Emily Laber-Warren: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2026/animals-sense-light-many-ways-with-opsins
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"In so many ways, we saunter through our built environments with our electric lights and think it’s going to be fine,” visual neuroscientist David Berson says.
“But we’re making ourselves sick."
✍️ Emily Laber-Warren: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2026/animals-sense-light-many-ways-with-opsins
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🩻 It’s not that AI will replace radiologists. Radiologists who use AI will replace radiologists who don’t, says Curtis Langlotz, director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Imaging at Stanford University.
Read more in Knowable's latest... #ScienceMastodon #KnowableMagazine
✍️ Lola Butcher: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2026/ai-wont-replace-radiologists-but-will-change-their-jobs
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🩻 It’s not that AI will replace radiologists. Radiologists who use AI will replace radiologists who don’t, says Curtis Langlotz, director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Imaging at Stanford University.
Read more in Knowable's latest... #ScienceMastodon #KnowableMagazine
✍️ Lola Butcher: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2026/ai-wont-replace-radiologists-but-will-change-their-jobs
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🧑💻 Our latest: 4 tips to help you be an eco-friendlier AI user
Escalating use of tools like Gemini and ChatGPT saps more and more power. While the onus is on tech companies to reduce AI’s resource consumption, there are a few simple things individuals can do to lighten the load. #KnowableMagazine #AIMastodon #ScienceMastodon
✍️ Katarina Zimmer: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/food-environment/2026/four-ways-to-reduce-energy-use-with-ai-chatbots
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🧑💻 Our latest: 4 tips to help you be an eco-friendlier AI user
Escalating use of tools like Gemini and ChatGPT saps more and more power. While the onus is on tech companies to reduce AI’s resource consumption, there are a few simple things individuals can do to lighten the load. #KnowableMagazine #AIMastodon #ScienceMastodon
✍️ Katarina Zimmer: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/food-environment/2026/four-ways-to-reduce-energy-use-with-ai-chatbots
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"The core issue here isn’t actually that difficult. It’s just about good design," says human factors specialist Ron Mcleod in our latest expert Q&A about the fraught union of automation and human behavior. #KnowableMagazine
✍️ Amber Dance: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/mind/2026/design-automated-systems-with-human-psychology-in-mind
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"The core issue here isn’t actually that difficult. It’s just about good design," says human factors specialist Ron Mcleod in our latest expert Q&A about the fraught union of automation and human behavior. #KnowableMagazine
✍️ Amber Dance: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/mind/2026/design-automated-systems-with-human-psychology-in-mind
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🐜 We know ants can build castles — it turns out some species farm, too!
Check out our latest Q&A with biologist Guillaume Chomicki on mutualistic partnerships in nature. #KnowableMagazine #ScienceMastodon
✍️ Tim Vernimmen: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2026/ants-and-plants-keep-symbiotic-partnerships-in-balance
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🐜 We know ants can build castles — it turns out some species farm, too!
Check out our latest Q&A with biologist Guillaume Chomicki on mutualistic partnerships in nature. #KnowableMagazine #ScienceMastodon
✍️ Tim Vernimmen: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2026/ants-and-plants-keep-symbiotic-partnerships-in-balance
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🪹 Millions of songbirds in Southeast Asia are trapped and smuggled each year for keeping as pets or entering in competitions. Scientists warn that it's fueling a crisis. #KnowableMagazine
✍️ Sandy Ong: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2026/high-stakes-singing-contests-fueling-songbird-crisis
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🪹 Millions of songbirds in Southeast Asia are trapped and smuggled each year for keeping as pets or entering in competitions. Scientists warn that it's fueling a crisis. #KnowableMagazine
✍️ Sandy Ong: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2026/high-stakes-singing-contests-fueling-songbird-crisis
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👃 We smell with our brains. Loss of the sense is pointing scientists to new insights about neurological disorders. #ScienceMastodon #KnowableMagazine
✍️ Victoria Clayton: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2026/what-happens-brain-lose-sense-of-smell
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👃 We smell with our brains. Loss of the sense is pointing scientists to new insights about neurological disorders. #ScienceMastodon #KnowableMagazine
✍️ Victoria Clayton: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2026/what-happens-brain-lose-sense-of-smell
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🤖 Behind every machine and chatbot is a moral psychology — datasets and information that drive the decisions they make for us. Trouble is, we don’t quite yet understand it. #KnowableMagazine
In our latest expert Q&A, Tim Vernimmen talks to computer scientist Iyad Rahwan about the moral dilemmas AI may soon be facing.
Read the article: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/technology/2026/what-shapes-ai-moral-decisions
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🤖 Behind every machine and chatbot is a moral psychology — datasets and information that drive the decisions they make for us. Trouble is, we don’t quite yet understand it. #KnowableMagazine
In our latest expert Q&A, Tim Vernimmen talks to computer scientist Iyad Rahwan about the moral dilemmas AI may soon be facing.
Read the article: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/technology/2026/what-shapes-ai-moral-decisions
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Is scarless healing (with functioning hair follicles, sweat glands and nerve endings) possible? Scientists are using bioink and 3D printers to find out. #ScienceMastodon #KnowableMagazine
✍️ Andrea Teagle: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2026/can-3d-printed-skin-heal-burns-without-scars
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Is scarless healing (with functioning hair follicles, sweat glands and nerve endings) possible? Scientists are using bioink and 3D printers to find out. #ScienceMastodon #KnowableMagazine
✍️ Andrea Teagle: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2026/can-3d-printed-skin-heal-burns-without-scars
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Slow-healing lesions — common in diabetics and burn victims — can lead to lingering infections that resist antibiotic treatment.
A new approach using light-activated therapies may offer a solution 💡
#ScienceMastodon #KnowableMagazine✍️ Zunnash Khan: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2026/to-heal-chronic-wounds-scientists-look-to-nanomaterials
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Slow-healing lesions — common in diabetics and burn victims — can lead to lingering infections that resist antibiotic treatment.
A new approach using light-activated therapies may offer a solution 💡
#ScienceMastodon #KnowableMagazine✍️ Zunnash Khan: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2026/to-heal-chronic-wounds-scientists-look-to-nanomaterials
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🔥 In some overheating cities, slums are taking the lead on climate solutions. #KnowableMagazine #ClimateMastodon
✍️ Laura Spinney: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2026/slums-bear-brunt-climate-crisis-solutions-are-emerging
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🔥 In some overheating cities, slums are taking the lead on climate solutions. #KnowableMagazine #ClimateMastodon
✍️ Laura Spinney: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2026/slums-bear-brunt-climate-crisis-solutions-are-emerging
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💭 Do cockroaches get lonely? #ScienceMastodon #KnowableMagazine
✍️ Elizabeth Preston: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/mind/2026/why-we-crave-social-interaction
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💭 Do cockroaches get lonely? #ScienceMastodon #KnowableMagazine
✍️ Elizabeth Preston: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/mind/2026/why-we-crave-social-interaction
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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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⚡️ 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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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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🥵 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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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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🏥 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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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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🧠 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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🧠 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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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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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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"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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👨 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