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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

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https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2025/top-science-stories-of-the-year-2025

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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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Mistletoes in a warming world

Can the famous parasitic plants help animals to survive climate change, or will they be killed off by extreme weather?

Knowable Magazine | Annual Reviews

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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

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/physical-world/2025/physics-of-clumping-clouds-extreme-rainfall

When clouds flock together

Scientists are discovering that clumping clouds supercharge storms in surprising ways — driving heavy, deadly rainfall and flooding

Knowable Magazine | Annual Reviews

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.

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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

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2025/top-science-stories-of-the-year-2025

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Top science stories of 2025

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

Knowable Magazine | Annual Reviews

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

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Zooming in on the brains of babies

New tools are helping neuroscientists investigate why early life is such a crucial time for neural development

Knowable Magazine | Annual Reviews

👀 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

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/measles-virus-outbreak-spread-genomic-analysis-elimination-status-cdc-rfk-us/

While Scientists Race To Study Spread of Measles in US, Kennedy Unravels Hard-Won Gains - 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.

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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

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Animal personalities can trip up science, but there’s a solution

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.

Knowable Magazine | Annual Reviews

Scientists are finding tumor signals in spit that could be key to developing diagnostic tests for various types of cancer.

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2023/saliva-next-frontier-cancer-detection

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Saliva: The next frontier in cancer detection

Scientists are finding tumor signals in spit that could be key to developing diagnostic tests for various types of cancer

Knowable Magazine | Annual Reviews