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“100 Glorious Years of the Ising Model”
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April 30, 2025
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Time and tide wait for no one. Very pleased to see our more recent 24-hour #PFAS paper featured in LCGC International. Great work by PhD student Nav Singh
“I don’t think anyone appreciated the magnitude by which even mild stress, if it’s chronic, can have such a negative influence on cancer growth.”
Studies show psychological strain can accelerate tumors — could beta blockers slow them down?
Read more: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2025/how-stress-affects-cancer
Diana Kwon for @KnowableMag
While precise numbers are scarce, anywhere from half to the large majority of cancer deaths have been attributed to metastasis. Offering people more options and hope will mean understanding how those cancers successfully migrate and recolonize. https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2025/how-cancer-cells-metastasize #KnowableMagazine #ScienceMastodon
Studies show psychological strain can accelerate tumors — could beta blockers slow them down?
Diana Kwon
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2025/how-stress-affects-cancer
Yet the abstract contained one phrase that would prove pivotal.
Six of the patients, it said, “used to eat local mushrooms.”
Terence Monmaney reports on this morel mystery 
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https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2024/did-eating-false-mushrooms-cause-als-french-village
“We’ve seen a lot of things on Mars, and on other planets, that have no good analogs on Earth.”
Martian lake beds and deltas are revealing the Red Planet’s watery past. But many puzzles remain, planetary scientist Bruce Jakosky says.
Read the Q&A: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/physical-world/2025/ghost-rivers-hidden-lakes-history-of-search-water-on-mars
Miso, the umami-rich paste made from cooked soybeans, holds promise as a food for astronauts: It’s highly nutritious, firm (and thus not prone to leakage) and rich in flavor.
And space might add some spice.
Miso that was fermented on the International Space Station tasted nuttier than portions of the same batch that were fermented on Earth, McKenzie Prillaman reports at #ScienceNews
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ferment-miso-orbit-space-food-taste-iss
Nearly 9,000 years ago, around the time that humans were first domesticating corn and pigs, some people in China were taming fungi.
One such fungus, the mold Aspergillus oryzae, would go on to become a culinary superstar.
Learn more about the mold that ferments miso, soy sauce and sake from our 2024 story
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/food-environment/2024/evolution-of-koji-mold-soy-sauce-sake
In people not adapted to life at altitude, the sparse oxygen can impair fetal growth, causing problems that can last a lifetime. Researchers are searching for remedies. #WorldHealthDay2025
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“This is the largest animal disease outbreak we’ve ever had.”
#H5N1, which emerged nearly three decades ago, is now creating upheaval in the poultry and dairy industries and making economic and political waves due to the fluctuating price of eggs. But there’s more at risk here than grocery-store sticker shock.
Here's everything you need to know about bird flu: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2025/scientific-facts-about-h5n1-bird-flu
Stress and anxiety during pregnancy can mean a higher risk of offspring developing ADHD, depression or other conditions. Medical psychologist Catherine Monk explains how prenatal mental care benefits mothers and babies. #WorldHealthDay2025
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/mind/2019/mental-health-mother-and-baby
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Of the roughly 1 million named insect species on Earth, about 400,000 are beetles.
And that’s just the beetles described so far. Scientists typically describe thousands of new species each year.
So — why so many beetle species?
Entomologist Caroline Chaboo: “We don’t know the precise answer.”
But clues are emerging.
"Why are there so many beetle species?" https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2024/why-are-there-so-many-types-of-beetles
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How Do Cancer Cells Migrate to New Tissues and Take Hold?
Scientists are looking for answers about how these confounding trips, known as metastases, occur throughout the human body.
Learn more about this in our recent article republished by Smithsonian Magazine.
On our radar: Soar with migrating seabirds
“The short film Voices of the Pacific Flyway documents how three human communities on North America’s west coast interact with – and are connected by – the flight paths of migratory seabirds.”
Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Aeon
https://aeon.co/videos/join-seabirds-as-they-migrate-encountering-human-communities-along-the-way
Understanding these astonishing migrations through the human body, known as metastases, could suggest novel treatments.
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2025/how-cancer-cells-metastasize
We humans spend a lot of time moving in crowds. Using tools from fields like fluid dynamics to better understand how groups of people move around can improve flow and make large gatherings safer.
I heard Annihilation was about grief or relationships. I'm interested af in Scavenger's Reign.
I feel like we have a rough indentation / substructure of how we will process things from birth, but that every event thereon will shape it further.
As well, we know ourselves in reference to others: "I'm like A, not like B, but most like C. What lies beyond C? I might see myself reflected best over there."
"Rules do not exist to bind you; they exist so you may know your freedoms."
Parameters outline a given environment within which to experiment and explore. It's one antidote to Blank Page Syndrome, for example.
