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 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 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 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