Nets equipped with water bottles and other tricks can help save some species, while allowing fisherman to still catch others.
✍️ Gennaro Tomma
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Nets equipped with water bottles and other tricks can help save some species, while allowing fisherman to still catch others.
✍️ Gennaro Tomma
Built from thickets of glucose, galactose, mannose and more, the glycome plays key roles in cell communication, immunity and the blood-brain barrier.
✍️ Esther Landhuis
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2026/role-of-glycome-biology
For particle physicists working with neutrinos, almost nothing is everything
Several massive multimillion dollar experiments should soon reveal more about the nature of these ghostly particles.
✍️ Nicola Jones
Renewable technologies need a multitude of critical minerals. The seabed could supply these riches. But at what cost?
✍️ Natasha Gilbert
The 'sweet spot' of overconfidence — project a bit to be perceived as competent, but don't be 'too seduced,' a cognitive neuroscientist explains in a Q&A.
📝 Learn more about this in our recent article republished by Live Science.
#Podcast 🎧🎙️ Sloppy by today’s standards, and maybe even back when it was published in 1955, Henry Beecher’s paper paved the way for sounder drug trials and pushed scientists to better understand how we process pain.
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/mind/2023/how-placebo-effect-went-mainstream

PODCAST: Sloppy by today’s standards, and maybe even back when it was published in 1955, Henry Beecher’s paper paved the way for sounder drug trials and pushed scientists to better understand how we process pain (Season 3, Episode 3)
#Opinion ✍️ Zero-deforestation supply-chain commitments aren’t protecting tropical forests as much as hoped. But they might, if the same standards were applied to domestic and export markets.
Unlike violent crimes, there are no comprehensive national statistics on the serious misconduct of companies. Some see a need for change. ✍️ Elise Hansen
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2026/corporate-crime-poorly-tracked-usa
In the lab, animals live longer on less of the stuff. How could this be, and what does it mean for human aging?
✍️ Amber Dance
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2026/low-protein-diet-animals-live-longer
#Opinion ✍️ More than genes and upbringing determine animal personalities: There’s a good dose of chance in the mix, too.
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2023/shocking-number-birds-are-in-trouble

Rich data on the global state of our feathered friends presents plenty of bad news — but also some bright spots. Researchers know better than ever how to help endangered birds, and there are notable bird conservation successes.