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Understand how teens think, learn and grow — with insights from leading researchers.

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The cancers indicated here show underlying similarities between dogs and people. Some, such as blood, lung, breast and bladder cancers, may have shared environmental risk factors.

Canine and human cancers bear many similarities — and studies in companion dogs are helping to develop treatments for both species.

🐶 Learn more: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2025/how-dogs-help-develop-cancer-treatments-for-people

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🧠 What is executive function?
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🧠 Are cell phones the problem... or is something else going on?

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🧠 Understand how teens think, learn and grow — with insights from leading researchers

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Cats twist and snakes slide, exploiting and negotiating physical laws. Scientists are figuring out how.

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/physical-world/2024/how-animals-exploit-and-negotiate-physics

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An attosecond is no time at all for a person. Not so for electrons, atoms and molecules. Laser-wielding scientists are revealing the action.

📝 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

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💡 Understand how teens think, learn and grow — with insights from leading researchers. Enroll in our free email course: https://knowmag.org/teen-brain-bootcamp

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.

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/food-environment/2024/scientists-combat-honeybee-threat-yellow-legged-hornet-spread-us

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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

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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