🎉 Some great news: Two stories by Knowable Magazine contributor Amber Dance have won first‑place awards at the California Press Women’s 2026 Communications Contest!

Amber was honored for:

🦠 Everything you need to know about bird flu (Specialty Articles: Science or Technology)
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2025/scientific-facts-about-h5n1-bird-flu

🔬 How cancer cells travel to new tissues and take hold (Specialty Articles: Health)
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2025/how-cancer-cells-metastasize

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Brain, Think on Thyself

What the science of self-awareness can tell us about confident decision-making. 📝 Learn more about this in our recent article republished by The Wire.

https://thewire.in/health/brain-think-on-thyself

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Chemists, historians and other scientists are working to design perfumes that recreate and evoke scents from the past.

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2026/recreating-the-smells-of-the-past

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When love is in the air, what’s happening in the brain? For many years, biologists would answer, “Oxytocin!” This small protein — just nine amino acids long — has sometimes been called “the love hormone” because it has been implicated in pair-bonding, maternal care and other positive, love-like social behaviors. #ValentinesDay

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/mind/2022/oxytocins-effects-arent-just-about-love

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“We don’t always need to fill up the space with conversation: Silent moments can be powerful ways to connect.”

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/mind/2025/psychology-of-silence-between-couples

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Inside the brains of aging dogs: In a citizen science project, thousands of pet dogs are helping scientists to understand what happens to memory and cognition in old age

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2022/inside-brains-aging-dogs

📷 Credit: Annette Shaff / Shutterstock

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Scientists are working to replace various hair product ingredients with ones derived from, or inspired by, biological compounds.

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/food-environment/2025/science-of-green-hair-care

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Scientists are taking a multipronged approach to tackle this dangerous carrier of dengue, yellow fever and other noxious viruses. ✍️ Katarina Zimmer

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2026/fighting-aedes-aegypti-dengue-and-yellow-fever

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They race, they leap, they spin, they shoot. Meet the organisms for whom physical prowess is more than sport — it’s a matter of life and death.

✍️ Amber Dance
🎨 Maki Naro

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2026/welcome-to-the-microbial-olympic-games

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