Knowable Magazine

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Sound science, smart stories. Knowable Magazine is a nonprofit, mission-driven publication that seeks to make scientific knowledge accessible to all. Free to read, republish and share. An editorially independent journalistic endeavor published by @AnnualReviews
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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

By performing tricks for birds, monkeys and other creatures, researchers hope to learn how they perceive and think about their world.

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2024/how-magic-can-help-us-understand-animal-minds

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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

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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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