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“Physicists have discovered a technique that can produce the perfect cup of coffee with up to 10 percent fewer beans.”
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“Knowledge of the electron’s behavior and its quantum powers transformed civilization in ways that defied anything the ancients could have imagined.” https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/physical-world/2025/how-scientists-discovered-the-electron
Knowable Magazine | Annual ReviewsPursuing the electrical fluid: How scientists discovered the electronA celebration of 2025 as the International Year of Quantum Mechanics and Science would be remiss without a look at how the carrier of electricity finally yielded its secrets — paving the way to the quantum era
Some scientists propose that in the beginning, geochemistry gave way to biochemistry — with no genetic material necessary. Only later did RNA and DNA appear.
Viviane Callier
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2025/evolution-of-life-metabolism-first
Knowable Magazine | Annual ReviewsAt the dawn of life, did metabolism come first?Some scientists propose that in the beginning, geochemistry gave way to biochemistry — with no genetic material necessary. Only later did RNA and DNA appear.
While little is known about the mysterious #Oropouche virus in Latin America, a number of deaths have been reported along with impacts on unborn babies. A #CharitéBerlin study has discovered that the pathogen is more widespread than previously thought.
Kids from immigrant backgrounds in the US often struggle to develop fluency in two languages. Many factors — parental misconceptions, the lack of support in schools and social attitudes — play a role.
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2024/how-a-child-becomes-bilingual
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Evidence for Democracy (E4D) has a summary of the effects of current US policies on #science -- including ripple effects in #Canada.
#ScienceMastodon @e4dca https://evidencefordemocracy.ca/trumps-war-on-science-how-his-policies-affect-canadian-research/
Evidence For Democracy · Trump’s War on Science: How His Policies Affect Canadian Research - Evidence For DemocracySince taking office on January 20, 2025, the Trump administration has launched an all-out assault on science, with mass firings, […]
Kids with disruptive mood dysregulation disorder have explosive outbursts well past toddler age. Scientists are trying to work out the causes and what treatments help.
“Just because it’s dead doesn’t mean it still doesn’t have a huge function in the ecosystem.” Deadwood typically represents less than a tenth of the organic matter in forests, but plays an outsized role in supporting fungi, bacteria, insects and other life forms. https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2025/rotting-logs-mini-ecosystems-habitat-and-food
Knowable Magazine | Annual ReviewsThe teeming life of dead treesRotting logs turn out to be vital to forest biodiversity and recycling organic matter
“Some people feel a great degree of overlap and continuity with their future selves, and some people don’t even think about that self, and it feels almost like a stranger.” https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/mind/2024/self-continuity-connecting-with-your-past-and-future-selves #KnowableMagazine #ScienceMastodon
Knowable Magazine | Annual ReviewsMaking friends with your past and future selvesIt’s what psychologists call self-continuity, and can improve your health and well-being
Scientists are revealing new secrets of the reflex that protects our lungs, spreads disease and irritates us all. #WorldParkinsonsDay
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2023/new-secrets-of-cough-reflex
A celebration of 2025 as the International Year of Quantum Mechanics and Science would be remiss without a look at how the carrier of electricity finally yielded its secrets — paving the way to the quantum era.
Learn more about this in our recent article republished by Popular Science.
https://www.popsci.com/science/how-scientists-discovered-the-electron/
Popular Science · Pursuing the electrical fluid: How scientists discovered the electronA celebration of 2025 as the International Year of Quantum Mechanics and Science would be remiss without a look at how the carrier of electricity finally yielded its secrets — paving the way to the quantum era.
Growing evidence suggests a link between the debilitating neurological illness and the microbes that live in our intestines. The vagus nerve may be a pathway. #WorldParkinsonsDay
Knowable Magazine | Annual ReviewsHow gut bacteria connect to Parkinson’s diseaseGrowing evidence suggests a link between the debilitating neurological illness and the microbes that live in our intestines. The vagus nerve may be a pathway.
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On our radar: Zoom in on butterfly wings
“Long a favorite of humankind for the range of colors and patterns in their wings, these insects are perhaps even more striking when viewed on the microscopic scale, which captures how small, shimmering dots of color form, like pixels, the brilliant patterns that have drawn people to butterflies for millennia.”
Kristina Dutton via Aeon
https://aeon.co/videos/brilliant-dots-of-colour-form-exquisite-patterns-in-this-close-up-of-butterfly-wings
AeonBrilliant dots of colour form exquisite patterns in this close-up of butterfly wings | Aeon VideosBlurring science and art, these close-ups of butterfly and moth wings reveal their astonishing diversity and immense beauty
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How oh how did life begin? Among the many mysteries is a chicken-and-egg problem -- or shall I say, a genetic-material-and-enzyme problem. https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2025/evolution-of-life-metabolism-first via @KnowableMag
Knowable Magazine | Annual ReviewsAt the dawn of life, did metabolism come first?Some scientists propose that in the beginning, geochemistry gave way to biochemistry — with no genetic material necessary. Only later did RNA and DNA appear.
“Existential threats to humanity don’t necessarily mean killer robots: They can just mean AI systems that run amok, that do things they weren’t designed to do, or you didn’t foresee they could or would do. Existential threats will emerge if AI reaches a threshold where it’s trusted to make choices without human intervention.” —Political scientist Allison Stanger
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2024/why-regulating-ai-is-so-hard-and-so-necessary
Knowable Magazine | Annual ReviewsWhy regulating AI is so hard — and necessaryMisinformation, market volatility and more: Faced with the need to mitigate risks that artificial intelligence presents, countries and regions are charting different paths
Collaboration between siblings is vital when caring for an aging parent — and that can present a challenge for even the most solid of sibling relationships. #NationalSiblingDay https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/mind/2022/when-siblings-become-caregivers #KnowableMagazine #ScienceMastodon
Knowable Magazine | Annual ReviewsWhen siblings become caregiversCollaboration is vital when caring for an aging parent. Yet there are many stumbling blocks to good teamwork, from unequal division of tasks and differing perceptions of a parent’s needs to old, lingering resentments.