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Some ruff news: The Dog Aging Project, an effort to unlock the secrets of healthy aging in dogs (and perhaps humans) is in trouble. Its funding runs out in June and a renewal seems unlikely, reports @emilyanthes at The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/11/health/dogs-longevity-aging.html

Learn more about the research effort and what it’s revealed about brain health from our 2022 story: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2022/inside-brains-aging-dogs?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=graphic&utm_campaign=reruns

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The insects in the spotlight this year were bedbugs, which ravaged first Paris (during Fashion Week, no less) and then Asia. But buggy concerns go far beyond this.

While pests are spreading and making pests of themselves, there’s a parallel problem of insect decline (sometimes called the “insect apocalypse”).

Learn more about insect invaders and other major science news from 2023: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2023/top-scientific-news-and-breakthroughs-of-2023?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=graphic&utm_campaign=originals

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Most plastic goes into landfills — or worse, into the environment. One big reason for these dismal numbers: Plastics are actually quite hard to recycle.

♻️ Solving the growing plastics waste puzzle: https://knowablemagazine.org/article/food-environment/2020/solving-growing-plastics-waste-puzzle?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=rerun&utm_campaign=reruns

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Can wind turbines coexist peacefully with bats and birds?

As wind power grows around the world, so does the threat the turbines pose to wildlife. From simple fixes to high-tech solutions, new approaches can help.

Science journalist Katarina Zimmer reports.

Read more: https://knowablemagazine.org/article/technology/2023/how-wind-turbines-could-coexist-peacefully-bats-and-birds?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=originals

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For a long time, fungi have been a neglected group of pathogens. For a long time, fungi have been a neglected group of pathogens.

But climate change could make fungal diseases worse.

Disease-causing fungi are likely to thrive in a warmer, stormier world — and more of them might be poised to make the leap to infecting people.

Read more: https://knowablemagazine.org/article/health-disease/2023/how-climate-change-could-make-fungal-diseases-worse?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=originals

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The modern use of placebos in research owes a lot to anesthesiologist Henry K. Beecher and a landmark paper he wrote shining a spotlight on these sugar pills.

Sloppy by today’s standards, and maybe even back when it was published in 1955, Beecher’s paper paved the way for sounder drug trials and pushed scientists to better understand how we process pain

Listen:

🎧 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-the-placebo-effect-went-mainstream/id1548524996?i=1000618492739
🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2x7hsGE1uYQxZXfmX8sCUs

Or wherever you enjoy #podcasts: https://knowmag.org/PodcastS3E3_Mastodon