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The “2025: A Year in Stories,” a year-end special feature that highlights reporting projects selected by the Pulitzer Center staff, features four projects and stories supported through our Global Health focus area. Check out all our selections! 👉
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For her 2025
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She ain’t scary, she’s my mother
Elaborate courtship, devoted parenthood, gregarious nature (and occasional cannibalism) — earwigs have a lot going for them
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2024/social-life-of-earwigs
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She sees dead bodies
An environmental historian looks at how Americans treat corpses and what it means
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Knowable Magazine
8 months ago
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2 months ago
Happy Halloween! Here are some topical stories from the eerie vaults of
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Sticky science: Evolution of spiderwebs
The eight-legged weavers have been hunting insects for almost 400 million years, flaunting their long history in a rich array of architectures. Scientists are still figuring out the taxonomy of them a...
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2018/sticky-science-evolution-spiderwebs
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Pulitzer Center
3 months ago
While Ukraine is resisting Russia's invasion, on the frontlines, doctors and scientists are fighting another war, one against antibiotic-resistant "superbugs". Grantee
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spoke with those containing the deadly bacteria. Story for
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The Pernicious Infections Infiltrating Ukraine’s Front Lines
Doctors and scientists are waging a shadow war in the besieged nation: bacteria that are resistant to multiple antibiotics. The deadly bugs are now knocking on western Europe’s door. The Pulitzer...
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A hopeful EV story from
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3 months ago
Turns out that the technology for better EV batteries is already here, get all the deets from our new explainer
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Fascinating and important look at the other arms race in Ukraine — a battle against multi-drug resistant infections on the front.
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story by the inimitable
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Daniel MacPhee 🇨🇦
3 months ago
“When an animal’s biological age runs higher than its chronological one, it can signal physiological strain — a kind of molecular distress flare that may go off before any other visible signs of problems.” Highlighting research in Canada too. 🧪
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The clock is ticking: How epigenetics could help save wildlife from collapse
In polar bears, dolphins, baboons and more, molecular signatures of aging are changing how conservationists assess population health, resilience and risk
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2025/epigenetic-clock-can-help-save-wildlife
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Emily -Abolish ICE- PhD 🎓
3 months ago
You can read this 2019 piece of mine examining research@ the time, which hasn't changed much since. I'll add that "environment" doesn't just mean *waves hands* the air or uterus or food or medications. It also involves the influence of your own *gene products*
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The quest for autism’s causes, and what it reveals about all of us
The more researchers look, the more multifaceted the risk factors appear — and the more we learn about how the brain works and develops
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2019/quest-autisms-causes-and-what-it-reveals-about-all-us
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UNR Biology Buzz
4 months ago
Friday afternoon after a long week: cave-dwelling lifestyle sounding appealing? Dr. Misty Riddle interview may be of interest!
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How the cavefish lost its eyes — again and again
Mexican tetras that got swept into pitch-black caverns had no use for the energetically costly organs. They lost their eyes in multiple ways — and gained some nifty traits too.
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2025/how-the-cavefish-lost-its-eyes
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When someone does something you don't like, what do you do? Call the cops? Complain on your local listserv? Keep silent? The impulse to tell is deeply human, but deciding to do it it is far from straightforward. A pleasure to edit this story by Emily Laber-Warren for
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Pollen power is nothing to 🤧 at
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6 months ago
Understand how teens think, learn and grow with insights from leading researchers. "Teen Brain Bootcamp” is free email course from
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Register for Teen Brain Bootcamp
Knowable Magazine explores the real-world significance of scholarly work through a journalistic lens. A digital magazine from Annual Reviews.
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6 months ago
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My favorite advice piece. I compile this and other useful advice articles on my lab website:
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Why scientists need to be better at data visualization
The scientific literature is riddled with bad charts and graphs, leading to misunderstanding and worse. Avoiding design missteps can improve understanding of research.
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/mind/2019/science-data-visualization
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Knowable Magazine
6 months ago
Today’s the day! 🥳 🎉 🎊 Teen Brain Bootcamp is now LIVE. Sign up and start your journey through the adolescent mind 🧠 🧪
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6 months ago
Reminder! The Teen Brain Bootcamp from
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Eva Emerson
7 months ago
As the mother of a 7th grader, I can't wait for this!! Thanks to
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9 months ago
“With huh? you say not just ‘I didn’t understand,’ says Dingemanse. It’s ‘I understand you’re trying to tell me something, but I didn’t get it.’ That reflexivity enables more sophisticated speech and thought." —Bob Holmes for
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Huh? The valuable role of interjections
Utterances like um, wow and mm-hmm aren’t garbage — they keep conversations flowing
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/mind/2025/interjections-important-for-conversation-flow
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Shayla Salzman
9 months ago
A fun little article about thermogenesis in plants that I am happy to have been interviewed for. I love talking about Cycads to anyone who will listen! Thanks
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Rotten tricks: How hot and stinky plants woo pollinators
To attract insects, thermogenic plants turn up the heat, emit strong odors and even disguise themselves as corpses
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2025/how-thermogenic-plants-woo-pollinators
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The connection between stress and cancer is messy, the research difficult to do. But a clearer picture is emerging, which this
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. conveys with grace and restraint! I learned a lot, editing her story.
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Knowable Magazine
9 months ago
We plan our stories months in advance. Small, steady gifts help us to grow stories from mere seeds of ideas into deeply reported, fact-checked science journalism. This spring, we have a goal: Gather 50 new monthly donors. 🌱 Help us grow:
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Stunning job on this exhaustively reported story by Amber Dance, edited by
@rosiemestel.bsky.social
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Knowable Magazine
10 months ago
Understanding these astonishing migrations through the human body, known as metastases, could suggest novel treatments. ✍️ Amber Dance
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How cancer cells travel to new tissues and take hold
Understanding these astonishing migrations through the human body, known as metastases, could suggest novel treatments
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Knowable Magazine
10 months ago
Huh? Hm? What? Wow! Our recent story, "The valuable role of interjections" is now available in podcast form 🎙️ 🎧 Listen now on the Grammar Girl podcast 👇
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Knowable Magazine
10 months ago
And if you just can't get enough interjections, check out our special complementary episode of the Knowable podcast, available on: 🎧 Apple
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Speech interjections aren’t throwaway lines
Podcast Episode · Knowable · 02/24/2025 · Bonus · 14m
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Incredible storytelling and photography in this
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piece by about the comeback of what is arguably the most badass bird, the CA condor
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Ann Finkbeiner
11 months ago
So either this seed landed on the rock and grew toward the ground, or it landed in the split and grew toward the light. Either way works.
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Katie Fleeman
11 months ago
“Every day or so, a physician would get on the screen, and we would talk back and forth, and he would answer any questions I had. It was exactly like being in the hospital, but much more comfortable.”
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Bringing the hospital into the home
A movement to provide hospital-level care for sick patients in their own beds, in the comfort of familiar surroundings, is growing in the United States — a trend already embraced in some other countri...
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2024/hospital-at-home-movement-is-growing-in-the-united-states
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KU News Service
12 months ago
Gem-like spores, such as those at a University of Kansas research center, may be a key to restoring imperiled plants and their ecosystems. Read more from
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in
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about
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researcher Jim Bever's work.
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Why scientists are enlisting fungi to save endangered plants
The mycorrhizae that live among and in plant roots can boost the health of certain species, and even whole ecosystems — but scientists warn against a one-size-fits-all approach
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/food-environment/2025/mycorrhizal-fungi-help-save-endangered-plants-ecosystems
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Knowable Magazine
11 months ago
We ❤️
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's work! Check out his latest comic:
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Rosie Mestel
about 1 year ago
Now here's a reason to think twice before foraging for mushrooms. A great piece by Terry Monmaney, for lucky us at
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A devastating nerve disease stalks a mountain village
Neurologists have grappled with a cluster of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis cases in France, where a fondness for a toxic wild mushroom may hold the answer
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2024/did-eating-false-mushrooms-cause-als-french-village
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Knowable Magazine
11 months ago
Once seen as a distant prospect, the powerful capabilities of
#AI
have rapidly become a reality. How can we manage AI responsibly and ensure it serves humanity’s best interests? One expert at the forefront of that debate is political scientist Allison Stanger. Here's what she had to say👇
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Why regulating AI is so hard — and necessary
Misinformation, market volatility and more: Faced with the need to mitigate risks that artificial intelligence presents, countries and regions are charting different paths
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2024/why-regulating-ai-is-so-hard-and-so-necessary?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=originals
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