🔥 “We should fight fire with fire.”

- Jevin West, expert on misinformation and generative AI, talking about using AI to help sort fact from fiction online

✍️ Katarina Zimmer: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/technology/2026/fighting-false-facts-with-artificial-intelligence-tools

👃 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

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

"The tapestry of life ... means that all living beings are interwoven into a tapestry in which we share evolutionary, ecological and symbolic connections. It sounds poetic, but it’s actually based on the latest scientific evidence. We share genes with other organisms because we all descend from a single primordial organism. There is no biological discontinuity." #ScienceMastodon #KnowableMagazine

- Biologist and ecologist Sandra Díaz

✍️ Valeria Román: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/food-environment/2026/fragile-future-of-biodiversity

🎊 We're excited to share some great news!

Two stories by Knowable Magazine contributor Amber Dance have been recognized by the American Society of Journalists and Authors.

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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

#KnowableMagazine
#ScienceMastodon

Metacognition refers to what we know about what we know, think about what we think, believe about what we believe.

🔗 https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/mind/2026/science-of-self-awareness-and-decision-making