Scientists are just beginning to study the impacts of beaver dams on the tundra. ✍️ Sharon Levy knowmag.org/4qJFEeP

Handled right, AI has potential to bring back middle-skill jobs lost to the rise of computers, economists argue. Or, like the mechanized mills of the past, it could toss whole sectors out of work. ✍️ Andrew Singer knowmag.org/4orDu21

Critters consuming species that contain deadly toxins have evolved a suite of clever strategies to keep out of harm’s way. Read more @knowablemag.bsky.social: knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

After long debate, economists and philosophers are reaching consensus on how to value future generations. #COP30 ✍️ Ula Chrobak knowmag.org/3XbaAqT

A really nice telling of the rise of Arabidopsis - mentioning so many of my heroes! We should be grateful for their vision and persistence.

What a fun fun article by the (great great) @rachelscience.bsky.social about the rise and scientific legacy of the diminutive weed Arabidopsis thaliana, for @knowablemag.bsky.social. I'm very partial to the art too, by Shaw Nielsen. Please read, enjoy, share knowablemagazine.org/content/arti... 🧪

The Big Bang should have produced equal amounts of matter and antimatter, which would have annihilated each other in a spectacular burst of pure energy. But it didn’t. New experiments focused on understanding the enigmatic neutrino may offer insights. knowmag.org/4hEgk5O

Arabidopsis, a little weed in the mustard family, joined the celebrity ranks of Drosophila, E. coli and other model organisms in the 1980s. There was a lot of pushback-- in some circles it was referred to as the "A-word" (!)

Arabidopsis thaliana was always an unlikely candidate for the limelight. But 25 years ago, the diminutive thale cress launched the botanical world into the molecular era. ✍️ Rachel Ehrenberg knowmag.org/4hImL8e

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Wallace knew this long ago. As did the wiser Grommit.

Read in English 👉 @knowablemag.bsky.social Our bodies and abilities deteriorate with age, and sight is no exception. Physical changes to the visual system cloud it in multiple ways. knowmag.org/47FwO9n

Nuestro cuerpo y nuestras capacidades se deterioran con la edad, y la vista no es una excepción. Los cambios físicos del sistema visual lo enturbian de múltiples maneras. knowmag.org/3IPYxeC

Tanto para las moscas como para los humanos, huir del peligro es fundamental para mantenerse con vida. Los científicos están empezando a desentrañar los complejos circuitos que hay detrás de la decisión de huir en una fracción de segundo. knowmag.org/44pXmv4

Critters consuming species that contain deadly toxins have evolved a suite of clever strategies to keep out of harm’s way. 📝 Learn more about this in our recent article republished by Science Alert.

Even for 60ish youngsters, researchers reaffirm that exercise is essential. But just walking won’t cut it — break out the weights and go for strength training too. knowmag.org/47yYKM3

Cheese is not just a tasty snack — it’s an ecosystem. And the fungi and bacteria within that ecosystem play a big part in shaping the flavor and texture of the final product. ✍️ Ute Eberle knowmag.org/4hB2O2Y

The machine-learning programs that underpin image-recognition still have blind spots, but will they for much longer? ✍️ Kaia Glickman knowmag.org/4oHq0ih

🪰 A parasitic fungus takes over the brains of flies and controls them for its own sinister ends. Here’s the science behind the horror. #HappyHalloween knowmag.org/4hANpzy

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🦇 Bat genomes are full of clever tricks that are treats for biology and medical science — it’s why scientists want to sequence them all #HappyHalloween knowmag.org/49tH334

Why do some blocks seem to attract thefts, assaults and shootings, and what can be done to make everyone safer? Two economists working in very different cities have explored the motivations and triggers behind different types of crime to try to get at answers. Read the Q&A:

🦇 Millions of years of coevolution have given the insects a bag of tricks to escape their predators — from signal-jamming and decoys to acoustic camouflage. #HappyHalloween knowmag.org/47gE0d9

🕷️ Our collective arachnid aversion could be causing us to overlook something even scarier: Spiders may be disappearing. #HappyHalloween knowmag.org/4qIbTvd

Living beings have been wielding deadly molecules to kill each other for hundreds of millions of years. In response, many animals have evolved ways to survive these toxins. Scientists are unraveling these creative defenses — and hope to identify better treatments for poisonings in people.

By using machine learning, scientists are identifying up to millions of tiny, previously unseen earthquakes in data gathered from seismically active place, helping researchers better understand the geological faults along which quakes happen and illuminating the risks of future quakes.

“If we have a blood test, it brings psychiatry down to the level of biology, which I think your average person can understand as something that needs treatment and that isn’t just in somebody’s head.”

“It can feel quite overwhelming. But I do think that slowly chipping away and learning, one chemical at a time, is better than nothing.”

“The coolest part, though, is that one study has subsequently found four animals, including the black-headed grosbeak bird, that have evolved to tolerate cardiac glycosides because they eat monarch butterflies, which apparently retained the evolutionary tolerancy of their younger caterpillar forms.”

Lots of animals eat poisonous plants and critters and survive. How do they do it? I looked into this mystery in my latest for @knowablemag.bsky.social: knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

Dredging and pollution devastated the once-bountiful reefs. Careful science may help bring them back. ✍️ Tim Vernimmen. knowmag.org/4hwbhVf

Machine learning is expanding scientists’ catalogs of quakes and refining maps of underground faults. It also promises to improve quake forecasts. 📝 Learn more about this in our recent article republished by Popular Science.

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Thanks to evolution, critters have developed a whole host of ways to deal with toxic treats — some even find ways to safely store toxic chemicals they consume and use them for their own purposes ☠️ | via @knowablemag.bsky.social knowablemagazine.org/content/arti... 🧪

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Critters consuming species that contain deadly toxins have evolved a suite of clever strategies to keep out of harm’s way. ✍️ Katarina Zimmer knowmag.org/3Wn6BHz

How can AI improve our understanding of earthquakes? Check out this @knowablemag.bsky.social piece by @alexwitze.bsky.social. eos.org/articles/ai-...

A warm congratulations to @ljevanso.bsky.social, whose feature story, “Getting along with grizzly bears,” is a finalist at the Webster Awards 2025 in the category “Excellence in Feature Reporting – Print/Digital.”

Superionic materials have spawned hope for a new generation of power packs for electric cars, with a promise of greater range, faster charges and more safety. But scaling up won’t be easy. 📝 Learn more about this in our recent article republished by Yale Climate Connections.

Happy birthday to us! 🥳 Today, we celebrate Knowable Magazine’s 8th year. That’s 8 years of diving into big questions in science and research; 8 years of burrowing into data and citing our sources; 8 years of evidence-based solutions and forays into wonder and awe...

A new study of more than 1,000 people with late-stage melanoma or lung cancer found that those who received an mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccine within 100 days of starting cancer treatment were more than twice as likely to be alive after three years compared with those who didn’t get the vaccine. [1/3]

Growing up in California, and now in the shadow of the Mt. Ranier volcano, earthquakes have been an ever-present potentiality. So it's interesting to see how #AI might be used to help understand these seismic forces in this new story by @alexwitze.bsky.social @KnowableMag.bsky.social

mRNA vaccines and cancer. #Cancer #Vaccines 🧪 #Scicomm knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

What you need to know about bird flu #BirdFlu 🧪 #Scicomm knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

Indigenous languages are founts of environmental knowledge knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

Read in English 👉 @knowablemag.bsky.social Utterances like um, wow and mm-hmm aren’t garbage — they keep conversations flowing. knowmag.org/4qtTcLA