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Cats twist and snakes slide, exploiting and negotiating physical laws. Scientists are figuring out how.
An attosecond is no time at all for a person. Not so for electrons, atoms and molecules. Laser-wielding scientists are revealing the action.
đź“ť Learn more about this in our recent article republished by The Wire.
https://thewire.in/science/watching-the-world-one-quintillionth-of-a-second-at-a-time
An invasive yellow-legged wasp has been decimating beehives in Europe — and bedeviling Georgia since 2023. Researchers are working nest by nest to limit the threat while developing better eradication methods.
Our genomes are riddled with DNA from ancient viral infections known as jumping genes. The majority of these are retrotransposons, which copy themselves via RNA intermediates; a smaller portion are cut-and-paste DNA transposons.
🔗 “How rogue jumping genes can spur Alzheimer’s, ALS”: https://knowmag.org/4k8BkkY
By performing tricks for birds, monkeys and other creatures, researchers hope to learn how they perceive and think about their world.
Some nice news: Amber Dance, investigative science and health writer and special contributor to Knowable Magazine, won First Place for Specialty Articles: Health at the California Press Women’s 2025 Professional Communications Awards. Congrats Amber!
Read the story: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2024/progress-in-scientists-search-for-new-migraine-therapies
Bountiful remains of foraminifera reveal how organisms responded to climate disturbances of the past. They can help predict the future, too.
Worm-inspired treatments inch toward the clinic: Infection by certain wrigglers may reduce inflammation and fight obesity and diabetes. Scientists are at work to turn the findings into therapies.
Hookworms are one of the groups being studied for potential impact on metabolism. Natural infection happens when the worms are excreted by an infectious host and penetrate the skin of a new host.