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

🔥 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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The Cybathlon is unabashedly "technotopian." ... It is about the fullest possible collaboration of technology and human effort.

✍️ Dana Mackenzie: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/technology/2024/cybathlon-competition-bionic-athletes-use-assistive-tech

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🥵 There's a growing body of research showing that animals get their minds muddled during heat waves.

When it’s hot outside, birds struggle to learn, dogs bite more often, goat-like chamois pick fights. With climate change making heat waves more common, such cognitive impairments across the animal kingdom could ripple through entire ecosystems, putting already fragile species at greater risk. #KnowableMagazine #ScienceMastodon

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

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