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🔥 “We should fight fire with fire.”
- Jevin West, expert on misinformation and generative AI, talking about using AI to help sort fact from fiction online
✍️ Katarina Zimmer: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/technology/2026/fighting-false-facts-with-artificial-intelligence-tools
👃 We smell with our brains. Loss of the sense is pointing scientists to new insights about neurological disorders. #ScienceMastodon #KnowableMagazine
✍️ Victoria Clayton: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2026/what-happens-brain-lose-sense-of-smell
🤖 Behind every machine and chatbot is a moral psychology — datasets and information that drive the decisions they make for us. Trouble is, we don’t quite yet understand it. #KnowableMagazine
In our latest expert Q&A, Tim Vernimmen talks to computer scientist Iyad Rahwan about the moral dilemmas AI may soon be facing.
Read the article: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/technology/2026/what-shapes-ai-moral-decisions
Is scarless healing (with functioning hair follicles, sweat glands and nerve endings) possible? Scientists are using bioink and 3D printers to find out. #ScienceMastodon #KnowableMagazine
✍️ Andrea Teagle: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2026/can-3d-printed-skin-heal-burns-without-scars
NEW: As temperatures rise, it is the poor who suffer most. The coping strategies of those living in informal settlements may hold lessons for cities of the future.
This story was first published by @KnowableMag.
https://www.thexylom.com/post/slums-climate-solutions-mumbai-extreme-heat-nairobi-sewage
Slow-healing lesions — common in diabetics and burn victims — can lead to lingering infections that resist antibiotic treatment.
A new approach using light-activated therapies may offer a solution 💡
#ScienceMastodon #KnowableMagazine
✍️ Zunnash Khan: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2026/to-heal-chronic-wounds-scientists-look-to-nanomaterials
🔥 In some overheating cities, slums are taking the lead on climate solutions. #KnowableMagazine #ClimateMastodon
✍️ Laura Spinney: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2026/slums-bear-brunt-climate-crisis-solutions-are-emerging
💭 Do cockroaches get lonely? #ScienceMastodon #KnowableMagazine
✍️ Elizabeth Preston: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/mind/2026/why-we-crave-social-interaction
🦟 The humble (yet deadly) mosquito can now list wildlife geneticist "field assistant" on its resume.
✍️ Alice Sun: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2026/dna-bugs-feast-blood-carcasses-help-map-biodiversity
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