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  🦟 The humble (yet deadly) mosquito can now list wildlife geneticist "field assistant" on its resume. ✍️ Alice Sun: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2026/dna-bugs-feast-blood-carcasses-help-map-biodiversity

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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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  🔥 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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  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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  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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  🤖 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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  👃 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 should fight fire with fire.” - Jevin West, expert on misinformation and generative AI, talking about using AI to help sort fact from fiction online ✍️ Katarina Zimmer: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/technology/2026/fighting-false-facts-with-artificial-intelligence-tools

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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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  "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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  🧑‍💻 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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  🩻 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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  "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 #KnowableMagazine #ScienceMastodon

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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 #KnowableMagazine

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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 #KnowableMagazine #ScienceMastodon

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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 #KnowableMagazine #ScienceMastodon

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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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  🐍 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 #KnowableMagazine #ScienceMastodon

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  Across the United States, an array of 1,800 stations has been probing the electrical conductivity of rocks deep beneath the surface. This Magnetotelluric Array has uncovered hidden fragments of continent, the stretching of crust and places likely to harbor mineral deposits, Paul Voosen reports at Science. https://www.science.org/content/article/deep-earth-map-reveals-lost-u-s-continent #ScienceMastodon

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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 #KnowableMagazine #ScienceMastodon

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  “Their autopsies, which took place over the last several years, all came to the same conclusion: The deaths were caused, in whole or in part, by a rare but potentially fatal condition known as vitamin K deficiency bleeding.” 👀 On our radar: Parents are rejecting a vitamin shot that saves babies’ lives, by Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica https://www.propublica.org/article/more-parents-decline-vitamin-k-shot-newborns

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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 #ScienceMastadon #KnowableMagazine

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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....

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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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  🌃 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 #ScienceMastadon #KnowableMagazine

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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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  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 #InternationalDayOfLight #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 #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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  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