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A diagnosis of pancreatic cancer is devastating news.
Though it makes up only about 3% of cancers in the US, it’s one of the deadliest.
And it's on track for a dark achievement: By 2030, it’s expected to kill more people in the US than any cancer except for lung cancer.
This apparent paradox is arising because screening and treatments for other cancers have surged ahead, while pancreatic cancer has remained tricky both to identify and to treat.
Nonetheless, there’s reason for hope.
Better outcomes may come from new drugs, strategies to rev up the immune system and learning to identify the disease sooner in its course — here's how scientists are making progress fighting pancreatic cancer 👇
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2025/progress-for-pancreatic-cancer
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Thanks to Ars Technica for republishing our article!
Adult children vs. parents, siblings vs. siblings — calling quits on one’s kin seems increasingly common.
As more adults cut off their parents, a researcher calls for closer scrutiny of causes and effects, and suggests paths to reconciliation.
✍️ Katherine Ellison
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/mind/2026/causes-of-family-estrangement
👀 On our radar: A Chinese national has been arrested in Kenya's main airport accused of attempting to smuggle more than 2,000 queen garden ants out of the country.
✍️ Wycliffe Muia, via BBC.
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
“There are not very many conservation issues that I’m aware of where industry and conservationists and consumers and the fishermen and the resource users all want the same thing,” says marine biologist Matthew Savoca, a research scientist at Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station. “Every stakeholder wants less bycatch.”
via @KnowableMag
How new fishing technology can reduce bycatch of turtles and other creatures.
From @KnowableMag: "Nets equipped with water bottles and other tricks can help save some species, while allowing fisherman to still catch others."
Keeping global warming to manageable levels will require removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it somewhere else. The world’s oceans may be a promising option.
✍️ Sandy Ong
Ars Technica
Katie Fleeman
Flipboard Science Desk