Why a diabetes drug fell short of anticancer hopes.
Learn more about this in our recent article published by Inverse.
https://www.inverse.com/health/common-diabetes-drug-thought-to-revolutionize-cancer
#revistaknowable — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #revistaknowable, aggregated by home.social.
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A lo largo de 1.100 kilómetros, desde México hasta Costa Rica, se encuentra el arco volcánico centroamericano. En él se encuentra una gran variedad de tipos de magmas, lo que lo convierte en un paraíso para la geología. https://es.knowablemagazine.org/content/articulo/mundo-fisico/2023/volcanes-centroamericanos-dan-pistas-evolucion-tierra?utm_source=threads&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=originals
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"If there’s one lesson to be learned from this hepatitis C story, it’s that persistence pays off." Virologist and 2020 Nobel Laureate Charles M. Rice discusses the remaining frontiers in fighting hepatitis C in a Q&A: https://knowablemagazine.org/article/health-disease/2023/virologist-describes-discovery-hepatitis-c-virus?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=rerun&utm_campaign=reruns
(Lea en español: https://es.knowablemagazine.org/article/health-disease/2023/conquistas-pendientes-lucha-hepatitis-c?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=rerun&utm_campaign=reruns)
IMAGE CREDIT: CAROL AND MIKE WERNER / SCIENCE SOURCE
#KnowableMagazine #RevistaKnowable #ScienceMastodon #HepatitusC #HepC
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What would signal life on another planet?
Astronomers have long debated what kind of chemistry might serve as a bona fide alien biosignature. With the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, those ideas may be put to the test.
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The ‘least crazy’ idea: Could early dark energy solve a cosmological conundrum?
Measurements of the acceleration of the universe don’t agree, stumping physicists working to understand the cosmic past and future. A new proposal seeks to better align these estimates — and is likely testable.
Theoretical physicist Marc Kamionkowski explains in a Q&A: https://knowablemagazine.org/article/physical-world/2023/early-dark-energy-resolving-cosmic-acceleration-mismatch?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=rerun&utm_campaign=reruns
#KnowableMagazine #RevistaKnowable #ScienceMastodon #Cosmology
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Our collective arachnid aversion could be causing us to overlook something even scarier: Spiders may be disappearing.
Here's why everyone should start counting spiders: https://knowablemagazine.org/article/living-world/2023/everyone-should-start-counting-spiders?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=rerun&utm_campaign=reruns
📷 CREDIT: PHOTOS BY MARTIN COOPER, MARSHAL HEDIN, iNATUREWATCH, BETSY MASON, ÓSCAR MENDEZ, WILLIAM PERRIN, THOMAS SHAHAN, DANIEL STANGE / CC BY-NC
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Could new devices change the way we measure blood pressure?
Embedded in a cell phone or in accessories such as rings, bracelets or watches, the novel tools aim to make it easier to manage hypertension. But they must still pass several tests before hitting the clinic.
Read more in:
⬇️ @KnowableMag
https://arevie.ws/BP_KM⬇️ Lea en español
https://arevie.ws/BP_KEE⬇️ Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering
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😷 Disease-causing fungi are likely to thrive in a warmer, stormier world — and more of them might be poised to make the leap to infecting people.
#KnowableMagazine #RevistaKnowable #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
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The notion of planting miles of trees to hold back encroaching deserts is misguided and damaging, writes a team of researchers in Knowable Magazine. Instead, they urge, we should promote programs that secure livelihoods and respect dryland ecologies.
Read more:
@KnowableMag https://arevie.ws/GreenWalls_KM
Lea en español https://arevie.ws/GreenWalls_KEE
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What can we do about ultraprocessed foods?
Researchers are figuring out the features of these foods that harm our health — and proposing ways ahead.
Read more in:
👉 @KnowableMag https://arevie.ws/UPF_KM
👉 Knowable en español https://arevie.ws/UPF_NU42
👉 Annual Review of Nutrition https://arevie.ws/UPF_KEE#KnowableMagazine
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What would signal life on another planet?
Astronomers have long debated what kind of chemistry might serve as a bona fide alien biosignature. With the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, those ideas may be put to the test.
Read more:
🛰️ @KnowableMag https://arevie.ws/Biosignatures_KM
🛰️ Knowable en español https://arevie.ws/Biosignatures_KEE
🛰️ Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics https://arevie.ws/Biosignatures_AA60 -
Los científicos están descifrando las características de estos alimentos que perjudican nuestra salud, y proponiendo formas de avanzar en el tema.
✍️ Alice Callahan lo explica en este reportaje.
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Social insects and humans share the trait of divvying up tasks, as do some fish. Researchers find that it emerges naturally, and it often doesn’t take a boss to keep things in order.
Read more:
🐜 @KnowableMag https://arevie.ws/DivisionLabor_KM
🐜 Knowable en español https://arevie.ws/DivisionLabor_KEE
🐜 Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics https://arevie.ws/DivisionLabor_EN42 -
New devices could change the way we measure blood pressure: Embedded in a cell phone or in accessories such as rings, bracelets or watches, the novel tools aim to make it easier to manage hypertension. But they must still pass several tests before hitting the clinic.
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“Even people who are really knowledgeable and who have a lot of experience out in the field were surprised to see how fast these forests were going down the drain,” says ecophysiologist and Annual Review of Plant Biology author Henrik Hartmann.
Read more:
🌳 @KnowableMag https://arevie.ws/DyingTrees_KM
🌳 Knowable en español https://arevie.ws/DyingTrees_KEE
🌳 Annual Review of Plant Biology https://arevie.ws/Deforestation_EG48