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- The New Neuroscience of Stuttering https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/mind/2020/new-neuroscience-stuttering 5 comments
- The silence of the owls https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/technology/2020/how-owls-fly-without-making-a-sound?MvBriefArticleId=702 53 comments
- The silence of the owls https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/technology/2020/how-owls-fly-without-making-a-sound 34 comments
- The music moves us, but how? (2018) https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/mind/2018/music-moves-us-how 11 comments
- The future that graphene built https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/technology/2019/graphene-2d-materials 9 comments
- Why scientists need to be better at data visualization https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/mind/2019/science-data-visualization 76 comments
- The Brain, the Criminal and the Courts https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/mind/2019/neuroscience-criminal-justice 10 comments
- War and drugs: Together since forever https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/society/2019/war-and-drugs-together-forever 13 comments
- Life’s a blur, but we don’t see it that way https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/living-world/2019/saccades-lifes-blur-we-dont-see-it-way 5 comments
- Listening to Ketamine https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/mind/2019/listening-ketamine 68 comments
- Nuclear goes retro – with a much greener outlook https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/technology/2019/nuclear-goes-retro-much-greener-outlook 3 comments
- Genetics extends the long arm of the law https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/technology/2019/genetics-extends-long-arm-law 2 comments
- Controlling electric signals in the body could help it heal https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/living-world/2018/controlling-electric-signals-body-could-help-it-heal 11 comments
- The dark side of “service with a smile” https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/mind/2018/baristas-burden 60 comments
- What makes a tree a tree? https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/living-world/2018/what-makes-tree-tree 17 comments
- Researchers and companies are working on new kinds of biodegradable packaging, bottles and other products that break down like compost. https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/sustainability/2019/toward-greener-plastics 3 comments environment
- The way this heading transitions from image to article on scroll [dektop] https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/physical-world/2019/gps-going-places 4 comments web_design
- Hot Jupiters were the first class of exoplanet that astronomers discovered. Nearly 25 years later, scientists still debate how these gas giant worlds end up closer to their stars than Mercury is to our Sun. But some think that finding the answer could help unlock broader secrets of planet formation. https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/physical-world/2019/hot-jupiter-formation-theories 6 comments space
- Election polls aren’t broken, but they still can’t predict the future https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/society/2019/election-polls-arent-broken-they-still-cant-predict-future 4 comments science
- Total recall: Chickadees survive harsh winters by hiding many as 80,000 individual seeds, which they then retrieve — by memory. Their astounding ability to keep track of that many locations puts their memory among the most impressive in the animal kingdom. https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/mind/2019/chickadee-memory-food 3 comments science
- Space-time itself may be generated by quantum entanglement, writes University of Maryland physicist Brian Swingle in an "idiosyncratic colloquium-style review" in the 2018 Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics. https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/physical-world/2019/quantum-origin-spacetime 81 comments science
- Looking for economic prosperity without growth: the only way for humanity to survive may be to abandon our quest for continual economic expansion https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/society/2019/looking-economic-prosperity-without-growth 4 comments economy
- Looking for economic prosperity without growth: the only way for humanity to survive may be to abandon our quest for continual economic expansion https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/society/2019/looking-economic-prosperity-without-growth 51 comments worldnews
- Why is it so hard to build robotic hands? Despite the gradual progress that researchers are making on robotic control systems, the basic concept of autonomous manipulation may be one of the toughest nuts the field has yet to crack. https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/technology/2018/humans-beat-robots-hands-down 6 comments robotics
- Signs of how a language grows: In a village in Israel, the way the deaf communicate provides a rare look at a linguistic birth. https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/society/2017/signs-how-language-grows?utm_source=email&utm_medium=sunday-newsletter&utm_campaign=2018-01-21 8 comments linguistics
- Making the case against memories as evidence https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/society/2017/making-case-against-memories-evidence 8 comments law