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In a year of funding chaos, ongoing climate change and pollution perils, we also saw the most powerful telescope yet, personalized gene therapy, and the next-best-thing to an HIV vaccine — not to mention a brand-new color
✍️ Nicola Jones
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https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2025/top-science-stories-of-the-year-2025
Can the famous parasitic plants help animals to survive climate change, or will they be killed off by extreme weather?
✍️ Nicola Jones
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2022/mistletoes-warming-world
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”By better understanding clouds, researchers hope to improve their predictions of extreme rainfall, especially in the tropics where some of the most ferocious thunderstorms hit and where future rainfall projections are the most uncertain.” | Clare Watson via @KnowableMag
Absolutely obsessed with this "combing" contraption, which measures the force required to run a comb through hair. Tho it looks like a little hair guillotine to me.
The science of green hair care, via @KnowableMag: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/food-environment/2025/science-of-green-hair-care
📸 CREDIT: PHOTO OF A/HCR HAIR COMBING RIG COURTESY OF STABLE MICRO SYSTEMS, LTD.
In a year of funding chaos, ongoing climate change and pollution perils, we also saw the most powerful telescope yet, personalized gene therapy, and the next-best-thing to an HIV vaccine — not to mention a brand-new color.
✍️ Nicola Jones
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2025/top-science-stories-of-the-year-2025
New tools are helping neuroscientists investigate why early life is such a crucial time for neural development. ✍️ Emily Underwood
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/mind/2023/zooming-brains-babies
👀 On our radar: The United States is poised to lose its measles-free status next year. If that happens, the country will enter an era in which outbreaks are common again.
✍️ Amy Maxmen, via KFF Health News
Scientists are conducting genetic analyses to see if the measles outbreak that started in Texas is still spreading from state to state. It’s a contentious question, because the findings may determine whether America loses its measles-free status.
Individual behavior patterns may skew studies. A new approach called ‘STRANGE’ could help, by taking into account the habits, tendencies and life experiences of the creatures under scrutiny.
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2023/animal-personalities-trip-up-science
Scientists are finding tumor signals in spit that could be key to developing diagnostic tests for various types of cancer.
Katie Fleeman
