Some creatures can dramatically alter their internal temperature—a strategy called heterothermy—and outlast storms, floods and predators.
📝 Learn more about this in our recent article republished by Popular Science.
https://www.popsci.com/environment/the-strange-animals-that-control-their-body-heat/
A recent survey highlights variation in the training credentials and experience across the burgeoning industry, which is mostly unregulated and unlicensed.
📝 Learn more about this in our recent article republished by Smithsonian Magazine
These stealthy survival tactics could teach us how to curb the widespread use of chemical pesticides in agriculture. But first, researchers must learn how seemingly helpless flora deploy this masterful strategy.
These stealthy survival tactics could teach us how to curb the widespread use of chemical pesticides in agriculture. But first, researchers must learn how seemingly helpless flora deploy this masterful strategy.
As cells divide, they must copy all of their chromosomes once and only once, or chaos would ensue. How do they do it? Key controls happen well before replication even starts.
✍️ Amber Dance
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2023/how-dna-is-copied
Most of today’s psychotherapies are grounded in Western values. Researchers hope that tailoring treatments to patients’ cultural backgrounds will improve mental health outcomes. ✍️ Diana Kwon
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/mind/2023/better-therapy-asian-americans
Scientists are trying to name the qualities that make someone wise and figure out how to cultivate them.
✍️ Emily Laber-Warren
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/mind/2026/what-is-wisdom-can-it-be-taught
👀 On our radar: There's a free automated tool that removes information about you from Google search results. For some reason, most people don't use it.
✍️ Thomas Germain, via BBC Future.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20260303-the-most-important-google-setting-you-arent-using
Whether caused by a tickle in your throat or an infection in your lungs, coughing helps to protect the airways. It can also be a strategy used by pathogens to spread disease, scientists have discovered. ✍️ Alice Callahan
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2023/new-secrets-of-cough-reflex
#Opinion ✍️ How worried should we be about insect declines? Community science is vital for gathering information about arthropods.
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2023/get-out-and-count-bugs
Researchers are developing brain-computer interfaces that would enable communication for people with locked-in syndrome and other conditions that render them unable to speak. ✍️ Marla Broadfoot
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/mind/2023/brain-computer-interface-locked-in-syndrome
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