Annual Reviews: Keyword search for query Evolution of the nervous system https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2023/what-is-a-neuron-when-did-it-evolve https://10.1146/knowable-091323-1 COMIC: When, why and how did neurons first evolve? Scientists are piecing together the ancient story.

]]> Evolution of the nervous system doi:10.1146/knowable-091323-1 Thu, 14 Sep 2023 00:00:14 GMT Living World Tim Vernimmen Why do thieves keep stealing catalytic converters? It’s elemental https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2021/why-do-thieves-keep-stealing-catalytic-converters-its-elemental https://10.1146/knowable-120321-1 COMIC: Rhodium is one of several precious metals that put the catalyst in catalytic. And right now it’s worth more than gold.

]]> Why do thieves keep stealing catalytic converters? It’s elemental doi:10.1146/knowable-120321-1 Tue, 07 Dec 2021 00:00:07 GMT Society Greg Miller How the pandemic could change architecture https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2021/how-pandemic-could-change-architecture https://10.1146/knowable-022621-2 COMIC: Covid-19 has inspired a rethink of how we design and use our built environments

]]> How the pandemic could change architecture doi:10.1146/knowable-022621-2 Mon, 01 Mar 2021 00:00:01 GMT Health & Disease Greg Miller Coronavirus evolving: How mutations arise and new variants emerge https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2021/coronavirus-evolving-how-mutations-arise-and-variants-emerge https://10.1146/knowable-022221-3 COMIC: As it spreads throughout the world, the virus that causes Covid-19 has been changing. Scientists are tracking those changes, hoping to stay one step ahead of worrisome strains.

]]> Coronavirus evolving: How mutations arise and new variants emerge doi:10.1146/knowable-022221-3 Mon, 22 Feb 2021 00:00:22 GMT Health & Disease Diana Kwon The 2020 census has arrived. Here’s why the population count matters. https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2020/why-the-2020-census-matters-comic https://10.1146/knowable-030620-1 COMIC: Written into the US Constitution, the decadal tally has always started arguments. But it is also fundamental to governing.

]]> The 2020 census has arrived. Here’s why the population count matters. doi:10.1146/knowable-030620-1 Mon, 09 Mar 2020 00:00:09 GMT Society Andy Warner As coral die, protected areas aren’t enough https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/food-environment/2019/coral-reef-conservation-marine-reserves https://10.1146/knowable-121719-1 COMIC: The reef-builders face larger threats, scientists say. Chief among these is warming seas.

]]> As coral die, protected areas aren’t enough doi:10.1146/knowable-121719-1 Tue, 17 Dec 2019 00:00:17 GMT Food & Environment JoAnna Wendel When courtroom science goes wrong — and how stats can fix it https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2018/when-courtroom-science-goes-wrong-and-how-stats-can-fix-it https://10.1146/knowable-101118-4 COMIC: Bite marks, shoe prints, crime-scene fibers: Matches to suspects are often far shakier than courtroom experts claim. Better statistical methods — among them, a little beast known as the “likelihood ratio” — can cut down on wrong convictions.

]]> When courtroom science goes wrong — and how stats can fix it doi:10.1146/knowable-101118-4 Fri, 12 Oct 2018 00:00:12 GMT Society Regina Nuzzo The monarch’s stupendous migration, dissected https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2018/monarchs-stupendous-migration-dissected https://10.1146/knowable-051220-2 COMIC: The feisty orange-black butterfly uses a toolbox of biological tricks to find its way down to Mexico for winter and flap north again in spring. Here’s how scientists figured out those tricks — and what they don’t yet understand.

]]> The monarch’s stupendous migration, dissected doi:10.1146/knowable-051220-2 Thu, 14 Jun 2018 00:00:14 GMT Living World Tim Vernimmen Centuries of pondering — and squabbling about — trees https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/food-environment/2018/centuries-pondering-and-squabbling-about-trees https://10.1146/knowable-022118-110101 COMIC: Do forests warm or cool the Earth? What’s their effect on global climate change? A comic narrated by polymath Benjamin Franklin describes the evolution of thought on this issue and what we still don’t know.

]]> Centuries of pondering — and squabbling about — trees doi:10.1146/knowable-022118-110101 Mon, 26 Feb 2018 00:00:26 GMT Food & Environment Eryn Brown Unpersuasive: Why arguing about climate change often doesn’t work https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2018/unpersuasive-why-arguing-about-climate-change-often-doesnt-work https://10.1146/knowable-020718-103000 Unpersuasive: Why arguing about climate change often doesn’t work doi:10.1146/knowable-020718-103000 Mon, 05 Feb 2018 00:00:05 GMT Society Andy Warner