👃 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

🤖 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

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

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 💡
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✍️ Zunnash Khan: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2026/to-heal-chronic-wounds-scientists-look-to-nanomaterials

🔥 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

💭 Do cockroaches get lonely? #ScienceMastodon #KnowableMagazine

✍️ Elizabeth Preston: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/mind/2026/why-we-crave-social-interaction

⚡️ AI isn't built to save energy. Perhaps it could be.

Katarina Zimmer takes us through the latest techniques and technologies that researchers are working on to reduce AI's "voracious appetite for energy." #KnowableMagazine #ClimateMastodon

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/technology/2026/lowering-energy-use-artificial-intelligence-datacenters

“We went into this research with the basic idea that the amygdala is the fear center, and we’d find fearless people, like S.M. But we got totally opposite results.” — social neuroscientist David Terburg

🧠 A social compass in the brain: People with a rare genetic disorder that damages the amygdala are helping neuroscientists rethink how the brain shapes fear, trust and concern for others

via @KnowableMag: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/mind/2026/genetic-disease-reveals-role-of-brain-amygdala

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“We are probably underestimating the impacts of increased heat on animal minds.” — behavioral ecologist Amanda Ridley

A growing body of research is showing that heat waves can affect animal behavior. Add in climate change, and there's a possibility for huge ripple effects across entire ecosystems.

—via @KnowableMag

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2026/heat-waves-scramble-animal-minds-trigger-aggression

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